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White Hat Liberal Geek Dad

Tuesday, December 16. 2003

It's Merger Day!

Geek
Well, it's like Valentine's day for business today.

BMC Software is buying the Magic software line from NAI. This is a good thing - the Magic software is liked by the help desks that I know use it, and NAI hasn't completely botched it yet, so maybe this software has a chance. Something to compete with Remedy....

VMWare is being bought by EMC for $625M. Arg. VMWare is some amazing software - I use it on my laptop to emulate multiple environments. Being able to run a Nesses server on a Linux machine and a Nessus client on Windows, all on the same laptop, is awesome! I don't like this - EMC is so big, it may just swallow up VMWare and lose it.

And then Checkpoint spends $300M+ for Zone Labs. I don't know how I feel about this one. Zone Alarm was never my favorite software, but it seems to work well -- the people I know who use it swear by it. Checkpoint has some great stuff, but one of their strengths is the centreally-managed personal firewall in SecureClient. I'm not really sure how this one is going to play out -- CP doesn't have a straight PC firewall product, but I just not really sure they needed one. We'll see.

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Zone Labs Checkpoint merger hit a snag... why is it taking so long? Rumor has it another company filed suit to stop it...
#1 nameless on 2004-03-16 12:57 (Reply)

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