For an undisclosed sum, Google bought Cameyo, a business that makes virtualization tools for running Windows apps on ChromeOS devices.
Cameron Miller, CEO of Cameyo, and Naveen Viswanatha, product lead at Google, wrote in a blog post that the purchase will help ChromeOS, Google’s light Linux-based operating system, by letting ChromeOS users use Windows apps more easily and without having to deal with complicated installs or updates.
“We are giving businesses the power to update their IT infrastructure while protecting their investments in existing software by combining the power of ChromeOS with Cameyo’s cutting-edge virtual application delivery technology,” Miller and Viswanatha wrote.
Miller and Eyal Dotan, CTO of Cameyo, started the company together in January 2018 with the goal of making a way to virtualize Windows apps so that they could run on computers that don’t have Windows and even in web browsers. To use Cameyo’s method, an app is “virtualized” and then served from a public cloud, like AWS, a private cloud, an on-premises datacenter, or a hybrid cloud setting.
Google teamed up with Cameyo last year to release new features, such as the ability to offer virtual Windows apps as progressive web apps, or apps hosted in datacenters that run in browsers. This may have been a sign of the acquisition to come.
Tom Warren of The Verge wrote about Cameyo on Wednesday and said that Google has been trying hard to get businesses and schools to use ChromeOS after customers didn’t really like it. Companies that want to get rid of Windows or work with both Windows and ChromeOS may find Cameyo’s technology more appealing. This is especially true as more and more apps move to the cloud and web-based technologies.
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On its website, Cameyo even says that hundreds of businesses, such as school districts and banks, already use its software everyday.
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