DEALS: Security, performance management, search

DEALS

WHO

WITH

WHAT

SCOOP

Sprint Nextel

IPWireless

Sprint invests in WiMax company

Sprint Nextel adds $10M to its original $4M WiMax investment.

EMC

Acxiom

EMC licenses Acxiom grid software for $30M

EMC gets a new way to sell storage and data management tools.

Mercury Interactive

Systinet

Mercury buys Systinet for $105M

Mercury gets service architecture tools which are resold by Oracle.

Actuate

Performancesoft

Actuate buys Performancesoft for $16.5M

Actuate extends into IT scorecarding and smaller deals, but might have to pay an extra $13.5M.

Sun Microsystems

Oracle

Sun will bundle Oracle database on high-end servers

It's a win-win deal for Oracle sales and high-end computing purposes.

IBM

Symbol Technologies

Co-developing wireless server blades

Symbol's making its WS5100 WLAN switch compatible with IBM BladeCenter.

CA

Control-F1

CA buys Control-F1 for undisclosed price

CA gets self-healing tools for data centers.

VeriSign

CallVision

VeriSign buys CallVision for $30M

VeriSign can now expand into hosted billing services.

Viisage

Identix

Viisage buys Identix for $770M

This is a merger of biometric security giants.

Research In Motion

Google, Information Appliance

RIM goes on accessories spree

RIM wants to make BlackBerry gadgets as handy and hip as your iPod.

EMC

Google

EMC licenses search tech for undisclosed price

EMC plans to add search tools into data/document management apps.

Hewlett-Packard

JBoss

Expands existing partnership

HP will resell the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.