Trango Virtual Processors

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]

Trango Virtual Processors
TypeSubsidiary
Founded2004
HeadquartersGrenoble, France
Key people
Pierre Coulombeau, founder and COO, Fabrice Devaux, founder and CTO

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

  1. Keith, Ward. "The Next Frontier: Mobile Phone Hypervisors". Virtualization review. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  2. Jon, Brodkin. "VMware acquires Trango, debuts mobile hypervisor". Network World. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  3. Simon, Bramfitt. "VMworld 2012 – Horizon Mobile (Application Management)". The Virtualization Practice. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
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