[kw-pm] ActiveState Acquired By Sophos

Wed Sep 24 21:32:30 CDT 2003

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:05:57 +0000
From: pudge at perl.org
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Subject: [use Perl] Stories for 2003-09-25

use Perl Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * ActiveState Acquired By Sophos

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| ActiveState Acquired By Sophos                                     |
|   posted by Simon on Wednesday September 24, @07:12 (activestate)  |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/1114210              |
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Tony pointed me at this interesting [0]press release: "Sophos, a world
leader in anti-virus protection for businesses, today announced that it
has acquired ActiveState, a North American software company that develops
anti-spam software for enterprises and professional tools for open source
language programmers". Early indications are they Sophos want to continue
with ActiveState's language tools as well as the anti-spam stuff, but
time will tell. Update: [1]davorg points at this [2]letter to AS
customers.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=03/09/24/1114210

Links:
    0. http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/pressrel/uk/activestate.html
    1. http://www.dave.org.uk/
    2. http://activestate.com/Corporate/Letter/