October Stock Talk V

Stick with me guys, this gets really boring.  But I know I’ve posted more inane things than this:

PTEC:  I’ve been researching into PTEC that KOAJ posted in the previous thread.  KOAJ mentioned their new FailSafe product.  But what’s more interesting to me is their development of their own hypervisor:

The move is of notable importance: while VMware and Citrix fight to embed their hypervisor into popular servers for enterprise customers, Phoenix may be free to do the same thing in the consumer market, but without a single competitor because of its privileged position in the computing stack. 

In computing, a hypervisor (also: virtual machine monitor) is a virtualization platform that allows multiple operating systems to run on a host computer at the same time.

What this means is that the Phoenix BIOS system will have its own hypervisor imbedded into its system, unlike the other hypervisor/software manufacturers that must incorporate their own systems into somebody else’s BIOS.  I would have to believe this would give Phoenix competitive advantages in the personal computer market.  However, I still haven’t gotten my head totally around this yet.  I am sooooo not a computer guy.  I tried talking this over with my IT department, but this went over their heads as well.  Of course, their answer to every computer problem is "try restarting your computer?"

What also makes this more interesting to me is that I could potentially see Phoenix getting bought out by EMC, Citrix or Vmware as a way to get into the personal computer market, but I would not buy this or any stock solely on a speculated buy-out.

KOAJ or anyone, can you elaborate on the potential of Phoenix developing its own hypervisor?