Activision to acquire DemonWare
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- Activision Inc.  said it agreed to  acquire Dublin-based DemonWare, a provider of network  middleware technologies for games, to strengthen its online  multiplayer development capabilities.
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IBM has agreed to buy Watchfire, a developer of web application security auditing tools, and plans to incorporate it into its Rational business unit.
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IBM said it plans to acquire software vendor Systemcorp for an undisclosed sum. The Montreal company makes project portfolio management software for helping companies manage IT projects.
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Activision, AMD, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia co-found nonprofit dedicated to "advancing the PC as a worldwide gaming platform."
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Alan Nero is acquiring the company of fellow baseball agent Tommy Tanzer in the latest consolidation in the industry.
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(InfoWorld) - Barracuda Networks is getting into the Web application security business. The security vendor has acquired Santa Clara, California's NetContinuum, a vendor of Web firewall appliances. Barracuda already sellsÂ Web filtering devicesÂ that prevent Web surfers from visiting malicious sites, but the NetContinuum products can be used to protect Web sites themselves. With about 80 employees, NetContinuum had been in business since 1999 selling pre-configured security servers, or appliances, that help protect sites from Web-based threats such as cross site scripting or SQL injection attacks. Barracuda, which is best known for its spam filtering products, had actually concluded the purchase in mid-August, but it was not publicly disclosed at the time, said Dean Drako, the company's president and CEO. Drako would not say what Barracuda paid for NetContinuum. The deal gives Barracuda a new type of appliance to sell along side its existing lines of appliances, Drako said. "We believe there's an opportunity to bring Web site protection to a very broad audience of our customer base," he said. Barracuda plans to improve the NetContinuum user interface and eventually sell the appliances as the Barracuda Web App Controller, he said. "We are investing really heavily in making this a really great product." NetContinuum had offices in Santa Clara and India, but the Santa Clara team has already been moved to Barracuda's Campbell, California, headquarters. Barracuda is expanding the team in India and expects to make only "one or two" layoffs as a result of the acquisition, he said. The Web App Controller line will cost the same as NetContinuum's existing products, which sell in the $30,000 to $50,000 range, depending on capabilities.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to buy data center automation software vendor Opsware Inc. for about US$1.6 billion.
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Security software vendor Symantec announced Monday it has agreed to acquire Altiris, a maker of asset management software, in a cash deal valued at about $830 million. Altiris counts Dell, IBM and Microsoft as partners who sell its products to businesses.
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Activision has revealed that it plans to ship Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines on November 16th in the USA, meaning that the game will be in direct competition with Valve&#39;s Half-Life 2 - the Source Engine technology for which Bloodlines uses under
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Security software maker announces plans to acquire Hacker Safe site certifier in a cash deal worth approximately $51 million.
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PC maker plans to acquire Bristol Technology, a maker of software for monitoring complex business transactions.
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MICROSOFT has moved to shore up its defences by acquiring a small anti-spyware company that makes security products to detect and remove unwanted software from Windows-based computers.
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An acquisition and an alliance give Microsoft new tools to target market leader VMware.
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Hewlett-PackardÂ has agreed to buy Web application security specialist SPI Dynamics, just two weeks afterÂ IBM announced plans to buy SPI's rival Watchfire.
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Activision expects revenue in its current quarter to be $350 million, about 25 percent higher than the average forecast of Wall Street analysts.
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Antivirus software company McAfee Inc. is buying Foundstone Inc., which makes software for detecting and managing software vulnerabilities, for $86 million in cash, McAfee said Monday.
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A Waltham maker of security software is being acquired by software behemoth Computer Associates in a cash deal worth almost a half-billion dollars, the companies announced yesterday.