Red Hat buys virtualisation firm

Linux vendor Red Hat has bought its way further into the virtualisation market, to compete against VMware, Citrix and Microsoft, with a US$107 million purchase of Qumranet. Through the deal, announced last week, Red Hat picks up Qumranet's server and desktop virtualisation portfolio and takes on its team of developers and support staff. The Israel-based company maintains KVM (kernel-based virtual machine), one of... [read full story]