Trango Virtual Processors
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Grenoble, France |
Key people | Pierre Coulombeau, founder and COO, Fabrice Devaux, founder and CTO |
Trango Virtual Processors was founded in 2004 by Pierre Coulombeau and Fabrice Devaux as a subsidiary of ELSYS Design group. Trango's purpose was to develop a real-time mobile hypervisor. It was acquired by VMware in October 2008.[1]
Products
Trango developed a mobile hypervisor that supported ARM architectures (ARMv5 and ARMv6) and MIPS architectures, and could run Symbian OS, WinCE, and Linux mobile operating systems, and a supporting integrated development environment (IDE).
VMware rebranded Trango's product as the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, which was later renamed VMware Horizon Mobile.[2][3]
Notes and references
- ^ Keith, Ward. "The Next Frontier: Mobile Phone Hypervisors". Virtualization review. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ Jon, Brodkin. "VMware acquires Trango, debuts mobile hypervisor". Network World. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ Simon, Bramfitt. "VMworld 2012 – Horizon Mobile (Application Management)". The Virtualization Practice. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
External links
- White Paper MIPS Technologies at www.mips.com
- SoCs can hold key to system security at EE Times
