Software Giant Buys Giant Software
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Microsoft today announced that it will buy Giant Company Software, a developer of anti-spyware and Internet security offerings. The Redmond, Washington, firm will use technology from the acquisition
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The chip giant has announced plans to buy a developer of digital-media creation software and services.
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Computer security giant Symantec has agreed to buy storage and backup program maker Veritas Software to create the world's fourth largest software company. The all-stock acquisition was initially valued at &#36;13.5 billion, but the price quickly plummeted after investors weighed in on the merger.
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Symantec, the leading maker of computer security software, will buy Veritas for about $13.5 billion, creating the world's fourth-largest software company.
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Business & money: Today's decision will define the future of the world's biggest software group.
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Microsoft announced their entry into the security software market with the acquisition of Giant Software. Giant Software is a 12 people strong company based in New York, which specializes in software that
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Software maker expands its Windows-lite offerings.
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InfoWorld - Software AG has bought the application modernization activities of Jacada, adding to its portfolio of tools for prolonging the life of mainframe applications by giving them a Web interface.
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Shoulders its way into search tech Business Objects' stated intention of becoming a $2bn company was never going to be achieved only through organic growth, and it was inevitable that there would be a number of acquisitions along the way, of which the latest is Inxight Software.â¦
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BMC Software is buying privately held ProactiveNet as a way to flesh out the analytics portion of its BSM (business service management) software.
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The rapidly growing software company gets the price it wants from HP.
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Ever heard of Giant Company Software Inc? Not yet, well perhaps from today as they became Microsoft Corporations latest purchase as Microsoft try to enter the anti-spyware industry as is being portrayed.
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Microsoft has purchased Giant Company Software of New York, which makes software to detect a common form of malicious software programs known as &quot;spyware,&quot; Microsoft said Thursday.
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Company agrees to buy Archivas, an existing partner, whose software allows for immediate access to protected, archived data.
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Computer security giant Symantec Corp. is buying storage and backup program maker Veritas Software Corp. to create the world&#39;s fourth largest software company.
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The Motley Fool - Leverage buyouts (LBOs) -- in which management borrows large amounts of money to buy a company and take it private -- have traditionally been for brick-and-mortar companies. But with billions flowing into private equity firms, they're are now targeting software companies as well. The latest: the $1.3 billion LBO of enterprise software developer Intergraph (Nasdaq: INGR - News). However, given the deal's valuation, there may be more bidders coming to the table.
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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¦