Big Blue buys Swedish software firm
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'Complex systems' push IBM is buying Sweden's Telelogic for $747m, further boosting the Rational business it bought five years ago.â¦
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Big Blue enhances its "on demand" offering for companies through its data centers.
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Corel Corporation has bought Jasc Software, the publishers of the highly rated Paintshop Pro graphics software. The buy out strengthens Corel&#39;s already strong presence in the PC graphics market - particularly
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Dutch company, a specialist in risk-management software, will become part of Big Blue's Tivoli unit.
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Microsoft offers to buy the Norwegian search software company Fast Search & Transfer for $1.2bn (Â£607m).
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Sun Microsystems, the large U.S. seller of open-source software, said it would buy MySQL, the world leader in open-source database software, for $1 billion.
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Big Blue plans to acquire Venetica to fill out its lineup of software for accessing business documents.
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OSLO/LAS VEGAS  - Microsoft Corp  bid $1.2  billion to buy Norwegian business search software company Fast  Search & Transfer  in a deal focused on helping  corporations manage and sift through their own files, a growing  market also targeted by Google Inc .
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Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Giant Software, a provider of anti-spyware and Internet security products. Microsoft said it will use intellectual property and technology assets from the.
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Microsoft announced today that it had bought New York software company Giant Company Software, which produces a robust anti-spyware tool.
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Microsoft has offered to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer for 6.6 billion Norwegian kroner ($1.2 billion), it said Tuesday.
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Updates Filenet IBM's appetite for acquiring software companies shows no signs of diminishing. Last year, the company conservatively spent $3.6bn, adding 12 companies or just their assets to its $18bn middleware business during 2006.â¦
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IBM has agreed to buy Softek Storage SolutionsÂ for an undisclosed sum. It plans to use Softek's data mobility technology to build more flexible and efficient storage systems for customers of its Global Technology Services division.
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IBM  and Lehman Brothers  have agreed to pay nearly US$17 million for 7.7 percent of Kingdee International Software Group Ltd. , aiming to establish an alliance under which Big Blue will help the Chinese software firm re-design its products and expand globally.
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On Wednesday, IBM made an announcement that got the tech world talking about Web conferencing again. Big Blue bought WebDialogs, a Web conferencing and communications services vendor that boasts more than 500,000 users worldwide.
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Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has acquired GIANT Company Software Inc., a provider of top-rated anti-spyware and Internet security products.
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IBM boosted its software portfolio for small and medium-size businesses with plans announced Friday to acquire Net Integration Technologies, a software vendor in Markham, Canada.Net Integration Technologies, which offers business management tools, will become part of IBM&#39;s Lotus division when the deal closes, which is expected to occur this quarter. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.&quot;We plan to use the technology to go after Microsoft in the small business server market,&quot; said Michael Rhodin, general manager at IBM&#39;s Lotus Software division during a conference call about the acquisition. IBM could use the technology to compete with Microsoft&#39;s Windows Small Business Server, which provides collaboration, e-mail, and communication tools.Founded in 1997, Net Integration Technologies&#39; tools include NitixBlue server software, which the company offers bundled with IBM Lotus Notes client software. The company also builds custom hardware and the Nitix Operating System, which is based on Linux and bundles system management, networking, security, and storage services.When Lotus was acquired by IBM in 1995, it was a great channel company in touch with SMBs, Rhodin said. &quot;Somewhere along the lines, we lost touch with the roots,&quot; he said.The Net Integration Technologies acquisition is also in line with IBM&#39;s process of realigning operations to better define and serve customers. The company recently restructured sales operations and is lining up offerings to match those changes, Rhodin said.IBM did not comment on any potential layoffs or relocation of Net Integration Technologies employees.