Sophos acquires ActiveState
Sophos is committed to supporting and extending ActiveState's involvement in the open source community. ActiveState's programming tools, language distributions, and support services will continue to be developed, supported, and marketed under the ActiveState name, in exactly the same way they have until now."
Posted Sep 24, 2003 14:58 UTC (Wed)
by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
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Posted Sep 24, 2003 15:03 UTC (Wed)
by mwh (guest, #582)
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Posted Sep 24, 2003 23:16 UTC (Wed)
by rjamestaylor (guest, #339)
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...when Linux starts making inroads into the virus threat, although Sophos
seem happy to sell AV filtering support for Linux and other Open servers.
They're very quick off the mark with new IDEs, and while the product is
cumbersome to install and manage without some scripts and imagination, it
does its job thoroughly and efficiently.
It'll be interesting to see what happens...
That's not how I thought of ActiveState, to be sure.
Sophos acquires anti-spam specialist ActiveState
They had to do something, Sophos, that is. With the prevalence of Linux/*BSD on servers and the pending explosing on the desktop markets the lucrative anti-virus market is sure to wane, leading to a cannabalising collapse among the anti-viral companies as they are obviated from existence. So, taking their fate into their own hands, they buy the "open source language" company and begin a process of introducing virus-enabling features into the languages taht allow virus propagation independent of platform. They're protecting their market!Sophos acquires ActiveState to control it's own fate
(Yes, I'm kidding -- the above was the cynical consensus of the team of developers I'm sitting with. There's always a darkside. Always)