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VeriSign keeps dot-com control; Sun gets patch management.


DEALS

WHO

WITH

WHAT

SCOOP

BEA Systems

Fuego

BEA buys Fuego for $87.5M

BEA gets a big chunk of future service-architecture technology.

Sun Microsystems

Aduva

Sun buys Aduva for undisclosed price

Aduva brings automated patch management to Linux and Solaris.

JBoss

Objectone

JBoss buys Objectone for undisclosed price

Objectone is an systems integrator and JBoss partner.

Transmeta

Toshiba

Toshiba licenses Transmeta technology

Transmeta badly needed a big customer, and Toshiba gets low-power tech.

VeriSign

ICANN

Deal reached for dot-com management

VeriSign gets to keep dot-com control until at least 2012 and may raise prices.