Sophos acquires ActiveState to control it's own fate

Sophos acquires ActiveState to control it's own fate

Posted Sep 24, 2003 23:16 UTC (Wed) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339)
Parent article: Sophos acquires 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!

(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)

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