Google acquires server software company Peakstream
Posted by Emil Protalinski on 06 June 2007 - 19:21 · 4 comments & 2360 views
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#4 Posted by dnstest on 08 Jun 2007 - 06:39
- My prediction: We will all hate Google in a few years when they want us to pay for things we have always used for free. "Don't Be Evil" is irrelivant after you obtain a certain level of market status.
MS is behind, but I don't see any guarantee that that this will always be the case. (And no, I am not rooting for MS, I am just saying things have a way of changing overnite: see Sony...who thought Nintendo would be where they are now?)
On a final note, the more competition the better! Monopoly=Consumers Loose.
Peakstream's flagship product, PeakStream Workstation for Microsoft Windows, was released in beta in March. Peakstream's Web site was not available following the acquisition. A version of its product page cached on Google's Web site described it as the first commercial software product to allow programming of multicore and parallel processors, allowing optimization of these increasingly prevalent chipsets. The company was founded in 2005 by executives from Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, EMC's VMWare, and Network Appliance. In September 2006 it raised $17 million in funding.