VMware Acquisition to Strengthen Virtualization

Found on eWEEK on Tuesday, 15 January 2008
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On Jan. 15, the Palo Alto, Calif., company announced that it would acquire Thinstall, a privately held company that specializes in application virtualization technology for PCs. The deal is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of this year.

"The addition of Thinstall to our desktop virtualization portfolio will help us to better deliver cost-effective and more flexible tools for quickly and securely provisioning desktops," said Jeff Jennings, vice president of desktop products and solutions at VMware, in a statement.

Thinstall, which is based in San Francisco, has about 600 customers in both the enterprise space and within government. Lambert believes that VMware will re-brand the Thinstall product line by the second half of this year, but that it will keep the company's partnership with LANDesk and BMC in place.

Thinstall is quite a neat piece of software. With a price tag of $5000 not really cheap, but impressive.