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Sophos Acquires ActiveState

Posted by timothy on from the sophosticated-dealings dept.

Jacco de Leeuw writes "I was checking the website of anti-virus vendor Sophos when I noticed a press release: " Sophos Acquires Anti-Spam Specialist ActiveState for $23 million in cash". I didn't even know ActiveState was into anti-spam! What will this mean for their ActivePerl or ActivePython products?"

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  1. ActiveState perl is the shit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anybody know if they're planning on porting Active State perl to linux? Work that I used to do in linux with awk, sed, and shell scripting is now done in windows 98 with ActiveState Perl. A lot of the perl features and syntax reminds me of unix shell scripting, so it probably wouldn't be too hard to port it to linux.

  2. What Does it All Mean?? by kurosawdust · · Score: 3, Funny
    Sophos Acquires Anti-Spam Specialist ActiveState for $23 million in cash". I didn't even know ActiveState was into anti-spam! What will this mean for their ActivePerl or ActivePython products?"

    It means they will be able to consolidate their debt and significantly lower their monthly payments, of course...

  3. Re:What will this mean... by dthable · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then they bring in the consultants.