The rumor had been floating around for a while, but after Oracle acquired SUN no one really expected them to still buy Virtual Iron. But they just did…

• Oracle has agreed to acquire Virtual Iron Software, Inc. (Virtual Iron), a provider of server virtualization management software that enables dynamic resource and capacity management in virtualized data centers.
• The combination of Virtual Iron’s technology and Oracle VM’s scalable, high performance and highly available server virtualization product is expected to provide more comprehensive and dynamic resource management across the full software stack.
• Customers are expected to benefit from better capacity utilization, streamlined virtual server configuration, and improved visibility and control of their enterprise software.
• The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close this summer.
• Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently.
• Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

They seem to amaze me every single time. I’m just wondering what will happen with the SUN virtualization solutions… Will they try to integrate it all in to one single solution? Oracle seems to be heading for the Clouds with the Virtual Iron PXE Boot Hypervisor.