The Sun shines on Parallels

Many of you have probably seen the post on Virtualization.com that broke the news that Sun is buying Parallels for $205 Million.

Interesting idea, but not true. In reality, its the other way around...Parallels is acquiring Sun!
And, in the process, I've been promoted to "Supreme Lord Chancellor of Worldwide Communications". Needless to say, its been a good day.

Now that we've scooped up Sun, its time to move on to our next acquisition targets. Here are a few that we've got in our sites:

1. Apple. By buying Apple, we can make it even easier for people to get Desktop for Mac by simply bundling a new Mac with every copy. We figure that everyone with a Mac pretty much buys a copy of Parallels Desktop anyway, so why not cut out the middle man?
2. Microsoft. Fingers crossed that our acquisition of Microsoft goes through. These guys are a real up and comer and I think that they could do some really great things. Mark my words, they're gonna be big, and with our guidance, we can make them HUGE!
3. BMW. Because the boss likes BMWs. Simple as that.
   

As you probably understand, not a single word of this post is true (aside from the "Supreme Lord Chancellor of Worldwide Communications" bit, obviously).

Parallels is NOT being acquired by Sun or anyone else! This was just a joke put out by the Virtualization.com guys (and to their credit, it was a good one).

Happy April Fools Day everyone!

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Comments

[Brian Berliner]

I spotted the "announcement" last night:http://www.brianberliner.com/2008/03/31/sun-microsystems-acquires-parallels-for-205m/And commented that, uh, you would be foolish to sell at such a discount. Keep kicking butt!-Brian BerlinerBlog: http://www.brianberliner.com/

[Robin Wauters]

To be honest, the story wasn't intended as an April Fool, although we spun it that way once we realized our sources had been playing a prank on us. To avoid these types of misunderstandings in the future, we had our sources shot to dead in a nearby field. It won't happen again.No seriously, thanks for having a sense of humour and happy April Fools' Day!

[Anonymous]

Your note about acquiring BMW made my day! :)