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Sophos acquires ActiveState
Sophos, an anti-virus company, has announced
the acquisition of ActiveState. Sophos is clearly after ActiveState's
anti-spam products, but the release states that ActiveState's Perl / Python
/ PHP / Tcl tools will continue to be developed as well. More information
can be found in this
message from 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."
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It'll be interesting to see what happens... Posted Sep 24, 2003 14:58 UTC (Wed) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link] ...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.
Sophos acquires anti-spam specialist ActiveState Posted Sep 24, 2003 15:03 UTC (Wed) by mwh (subscriber, #582) [Link] That's not how I thought of ActiveState, to be sure.
Sophos acquires ActiveState to control it's own fate Posted Sep 24, 2003 23:16 UTC (Wed) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link] 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!
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