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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. Re:What will this mean... by 0x0d0a · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As a division of Sophos, the existing ActiveState team is committed to continuing its support of the open source language community.

    You do realize that every press release during every purchase and merger over the years has *always* said that no changes will be made, no employees will be fired...

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  2. How about that Sophos antivirus by scrytch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... When is Sophos going to stop sending out bounce notices to the forged "senders" of email viruses? These do nothing but spamvertise the product. I must have blocked millions of sophos bounces of Sobig. Not that Sophos is the only offender, but it seems designed to do so...

    Fact is, more than 99% of virus traffic is "stealthy" sends of trojans now, not some macro virus attached to a .doc file. And in every case it's forged. Bounces have to stop.

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