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Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant doing Linux and Open Source projects in Belgium , Europe and the rest of the universe. He is currently working for Inuits, and starting up some new projects still in stealth mode. Kris is the Co-Author of Virtualization with Xen, used to be the maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO and author of different technical publications. He is a frequent speaker at different international conferences.

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Qlusters Shuts Down

July 1st, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

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Israel business site Globes Online got the scoop about Qlusters closing shop after seven years in business. The last 30 employees of the company were informed earlier this week of the company’s decision.

Qlusters, the company formerly behind the openQRM project shutters only about a year after it raised $10 million in a Series C round. While the market of Infrastructure Management tools and particularly Virtualization Management frameworks is growing, Qlusters failed to realize its goals and burned through approximately $34 million of capital.

As we reported earlier, Qlusters had no new roadmap after dropping the opensource openQRM project, which recently announced the beta of it’s 4.0 rewrite. It’s always sad to see a company like Qlusters leave the market like this, but fortunately their technology will continue to live on thanks to the open source community.

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  1. Comment by Blocka on 2 July 2008:

    It’s sad to see another virtualization tool vendor go done the drain. I think that another one has gone but no-one seems to have realised.

    Virtugo doesn’t seem to exist any more. Their website is down, phones are not connected and no-one is answering emails. Does anyone have any idea what’s going on there?

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  3. Pingback by Qlusters Out of Business | ScienceLogic on 7 July 2008:

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