IBM to Acquire Transitive
Thursday November 20, 2008 03:51 PM EST
Written by Arnold Kim
Earlier this week, IBM announced its plans to buy Transitive, a small cross-platform virtualization company.
MacRumors readers will remember the company for providing the technology behind Rosetta, Apple's PowerPC emulator for Mac OS X. Rosetta played a major role in allowing Apple to transition from PowerPC to Intel architectures and remains a part of Mac OS X. Apple's need for Rosetta, of course, has lessened over the years as the switch to Intel has progressed.
It's not clear if this will affect Apple's ongoing license for Transitive technologies.
MacRumors readers will remember the company for providing the technology behind Rosetta, Apple's PowerPC emulator for Mac OS X. Rosetta played a major role in allowing Apple to transition from PowerPC to Intel architectures and remains a part of Mac OS X. Apple's need for Rosetta, of course, has lessened over the years as the switch to Intel has progressed.
It's not clear if this will affect Apple's ongoing license for Transitive technologies.
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