ActiveState acquired by Sophos

[Scott Penrose]

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I thought this would be interesting to members.

Scott

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> From: pudge at perl.org
> Date: Thu Sep 25, 2003  12:05:26 Australia/Melbourne
> To: scottp at dd.com.au
> Subject: [use Perl] Stories for 2003-09-25
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> 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/
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