Sun Acquires CFS/Lustre, Becomes Windows OEM 138
anzha writes "Sun Microsystems announced today that they are acquiring Cluster File Systems Inc. CFS owns the intellectual property related to and develops the open source file system known as Lustre." Relatedly Sun has also signed an agreement with Microsoft to be a Windows OEM. "Sun and Microsoft will work together to ensure that Solaris runs well as a guest on Microsoft virtualization technologies and that Windows Server runs well as a guest on Sun's virtualization technologies. Sun and Microsoft will work together on a support process for customers who are using the virtualization solutions. This joint commitment to customers ensures that Windows and Solaris will provide a solid virtualization experience."
Hey, it worked for SGI... (Score:5, Funny)
Ars Technica coverage (Score:5, Funny)
Notice the so-funny-yet-true chart towards the bottom.
Talk about timing (Score:5, Funny)
And the verdict is... (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly Sun is EVIL on
Re:Problem (Score:4, Funny)
What the hell does OSX have to do with anything?
In other news (Score:3, Funny)
Well, this'll be a total clusterfsck. (Score:3, Funny)