DEALS: Check Point buys Sourcefire for $225M

DEALS

WHO

WITH

WHAT

SCOOP

Advanced Digital Information Corp.

Overland Storage

ADIC in hostile takeover bid

ADIC already owns 9 percent of Overland; now it wants the rest whether Overland likes it or not.

EMC

Adobe

Data sharing partnership

EMC will make its Documentum products compatible with Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform.

Symantec

BindView

Symantec acquiring BindView for $209M

Symantec gets agentless compliance software to complement its previous Sygate purchase.

Cisco Systems

Nemo Systems

Cisco buying Nemo for $12.5M

Cisco gets specialized, high-end memory chips for network appliances.

IBM

Univa

Software partnership

IBM gets a license for Univa's Globas middleware for grid applications.

Google

Sun Microsystems

Development partnership

Rumored grand plans turn out to be vague co-development promise.

Business Objects

SRC Software

Business Objects acquiring SRC for $100M

Business Objects gets IT forecasting and planning software to compete vs. rival Cognos.

Business Objects

Infommersion

Business Objects buying Infommersion for $40M

Business Objects gets data visualization software to compete vs. rival Cognos.

Hewlett-Packard

RLX Technologies

HP acquiring RLX for undisclosed amount

HP gets the pioneering blade server management specialist.

IBM

Mercury Computer Systems

High-end server partnership

IBM and Mercury will co-develop servers with dual Cell cores; Mercury will sell them.

American Power Conversion

NetBotz

APC buying NetBotz for $31M

APC will integrate NetBotz's data center security tools with its own architecture.

Check Point Software Technologies

Sourcefire

Check Point acquiring Sourcefire for $225M

Check Point gets Sourcefire's open-source Snort intrusion detection system.

Microsoft

Unveil Technologies

Microsoft bought tools from Unveil for undisclosed amount

Microsoft gets Adaptive Learning and Conversation Assist tools for Windows Speech Server.

BEA Systems

ConnecTerra

BEA acquired ConnecTerra for undisclosed amount

BEA gets specialist in managing RFID data.

Microsoft

Yahoo

Software partnership

Microsoft and Yahoo will release instant-messenger compatibility around next spring.

IBM

Novell

Development partnership

IBM will sell blade servers preconfigured with Novell's SuSE Linux subscriptions.