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ActiveState Acquired By Sophos

posted by Simon on 2003.09.24 6:12   

Tony pointed me at this interesting press release: "Sophos, a world leader in anti-virus protection for businesses, today announced that it has acquired ActiveState, a North American software company that develops anti-spam software for enterprises and professional tools for open source language programmers". Early indications are they Sophos want to continue with ActiveState's language tools as well as the anti-spam stuff, but time will tell. Update: davorg points at this letter to AS customers.

• Letter from Activestate (Score:5, Informative)

  by davorg (18) <dave@dave.org.uk> on 2003.09.24 6:20 (#24489) Homepage Journal

  Activestate's web site has an open letter to its customers [activestate.com] talking about the acquisition.

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  • Re:Letter from Activestate (Score:1)

    by goon (3162)

    time will tell how the acquisition plays out for perl [activestate.com], python [activestate.com] on windows. Activestate did a good job with python, a fair job with perl (fix up modules and CPAN) and a great job with the docs [activestate.com]. If you want any indication what is in store for Activestate check out the board [sophos.com]. Hardly the type to *hand out* hippyish freebies like distributions and docs.

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