It’s not the first time VMware quietly acquires a company (remember Blue Lane?). Now it appears as the virtualization juggernaut has also picked up Tungsten Graphics as recently as last month. From the FAQ on their website: Has TG been acquired? Yes, VMware acquired Tungsten Graphics on November 26, 2008. The addition of the TG team will augment VMware’s ability to deliver industry-leading 3D graphics virtualization capabilities. How does VMware fit into the landscape of open source graphics? VMware has had a history of developing technology to enable graphics capabilities to guest software running in VMware virtual machines. This work includes special drivers that are optimized for VMware’s virtual hardware, that consequently offer better performance and additional features such as arbitrary screen resizing and multihead support.