Please read my recent column on ClickZ:
“These two important differences lead to the very reason why a technology like real-time bidding can potentially create tremendous value for buyers and sellers simultaneously…
Archive for June, 2010
Creating Value in Real Time – My column on ClickZ
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Sun VirtualBox is now Oracle VM
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010I’ve been happily using Sun VirtualBox until version 3.1.8. It started to give me trouble when I upgraded Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 LTS guest OS. I suspected that the VBox version I’m running is out of date. However, when I ran “check for update” it happily reported that I’m “running the latest version”.
After several iterations of struggle, I came back to revisit the notion of “the latest version” by going directly to the VBox website. Sure enough, the latest version is 3.2.2. Shutdown, download, install. Out it popped the window indicating I’m about to install Oracle VM!
After some panic, I realized that it is not a trojan horse but rather the side-effect of Oracle’s recent take-over of Sun Microsystem. Because it was hastily rebranded from Sun VirtualBox to Oracle VM, even the software itself didn’t recognize it has a new owner and newer version available.