DEALS

WHO

WITH

WHAT

SCOOP

BEA Systems

M7

BEA acquires M7

For an undisclosed price, BEA gets open-source Eclipse development tools to better take on JBoss.

Hewlett-Packard

Peregrine Systems

HP buys Peregrine for $425M

Peregrine's IT tracking tools puts HP even with Computer Associates and IBM/Tivoli.

SAP

Triversity

SAP buys Triversity for an undisclosed price

SAP gets retail management software, since it lost Retek to Oracle.

Microsoft

Alacris

Microsoft buys Alacris for an undisclosed price

Microsoft gets certificate management and ID confirmation software.

Avaya

Nimcat

Avaya buys Nimcat for $46M

Avaya gets peer-to-peer technology to add to its existing VoIP systems.

FileNet

Yaletown

FileNet buys Yaletown for an undisclosed price

FileNet gets records and e-mail warehousing technology.

Oracle

Global Logistics Technologies

Oracle buys G-Log for an undisclosed price

Oracle gets fulfillment and supply-chain logistics software.

Symantec

WholeSecurity

Symantec buys WholeSecurity for an undisclosed price

Symantec gets anti-phishing technology.

Hewlett-Packard

Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, SAS

OpenView partnerships

HP bundles partners' software with OpenView Business Process Insight.

3Par

OnStor

Co-developed storage array

Merging 3Par's NAS with OnStor's SAN in clever way to challenge EMC, Network Appliance.

Intel

Digium

Partnering for Asterisk to support Dialogic

Digium's Asterisk open-source IP-PBX gets enterprise support via Intel's Dialogic telephony boards.

Cisco Systems

Trend Micro

Security partnership

Cisco's new Incident Control System gets worm/virus updates from Trend Micro.

Microsoft

JBoss

Middleware partnership

In a surprising move, Microsoft and open-source JBoss to make interoperability between directories, databases, and system management tools of .Net and JBoss Enterprise Middleware System.