Sun buying innotek

The statement from Sun:

SANTA CLARA, CA February 12, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek, the provider of the leading edge, open source virtualization software called VirtualBox. By enabling developers to more efficiently build, test and run applications on multiple platforms, VirtualBox will extend the Sun xVM platform onto the desktop and strengthen Sun’s leadership in the virtualization market. This software is available for all major operating systems at www.virtualbox.org and www.openxvm.org.

First MySQL, now Virtualbox. Sun is going open-source mad!

Let’s just hope this doesn’t mean that they’re going to going to spin out a”professional” non-free version to compete with VMWare Workstation (keeping the FOSS version crippled).