VMware Buys Thinstall & Foedus

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VMware is buying a little San Francisco-based application virtualization house called Thinstall on undisclosed terms to expand its ability to provision, deploy and update the desktop. VMware observes that delivering applications is the single largest cost of desktop administration and claims that Thinstall's third-generation solution offers the 'best technological approach in the market for application virtualization,' making the process faster, easier and more secure. Thinstall is VMware's second recent acquisition. Last week word surfaced that it had bought the services-related IP and 30 people connected with a New Hampshire-based concern called Foedus. VMware says it intends to leverage Foedus' application and desktop virtualization services to help its resellers, who sell the lion's share of VMware, learn best practices and expand their services businesses.

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Source: www.sys-con.com