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SVISTA (Serenity Virtual Station) is a former commercial virtual machine software product marketed by Serenity Systems International. Windows, OS/2, Linux and FreeBSD hosted versions were available.〔(Press release: Serenity Virtual Station Early Support Program )〕 This product is no longer available nor supported. ==Description== SVISTA was developed under contract with Parallels Software Studio and was based on its existing TwoOStwo software, although the OS/2 and FreeBSD hosted versions were specific to SVISTA. Providing a virtualization product was initially part of Serenity's strategy for marketing its eComStation operating system. When the OS/2 port of Connectix VirtualPC was discontinued following the acquisition of its creator by Microsoft, Serenity contracted Parallels to develop SVISTA as an alternative. A beta program was launched in the spring of 2004,〔 with a general availability release in October of that year.〔(Press release: SVISTA(TM) Virtual Machine Released )〕 However, the product was discontinued shortly afterwards following the acquisition of Parallels by SWsoft. According to Bob St. John of Serenity Systems, SWsoft was not interested in continuing the development of SVISTA, and withdrew from the OEM contract.〔(Yahoo! Groups message from Bob St. John: Re: svista )〕 Although Serenity briefly expressed interest in finding another solution for an OS/2 hosted virtualization product, it was eventually deemed impractical due to increased competition in the consumer market from Microsoft and VMWare.〔(Yahoo! Groups message from Bob St. John: Re: SVISTA Follow On )〕 The former product website currently indicates that SVISTA is no longer available, and suggests Virtual Bridges and VirtualBox as possible third-party alternatives. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SVISTA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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