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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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