Is Softricity Being Purchased by Microsoft?

According to CRN, Microsoft is in talks to buy application virtualization software vendor Softricity.

I'd like to say that the news doesn't come as a shock, but quite frankly, I was shocked! Sure, there was a lot of news about Softricity and SoftGrid 4.0 that came out of the Microsoft Management Summit last month, and sure news spread like wildfire that SoftGrid 4.0 would tie in with Microsoft's Systems Management Server 2003. I'm still floored! While the deal isn't signed, sealed, and delivered, it appears as though they are heading into the final stretches - they just need to get beyond some last minute haggling kind of stuff.

CRN says the deal is expected to be finished before the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle next week. And their sources also claim that Microsoft will unveil at WinHEC Virtual DLL, a feature for Windows Vista developed jointly with Softricity.

It looks like EMC isn't the only company spending its war chest to accumulate solid software solutions and then bring it under the family umbrella.

Read the entire CRN article, here.

Posted by David Marshall on May 18, 2006 08:53 PM