The acquisition of anti-spam vendor ActiveState gives Sophos, a U.K. antivirus vendor, a suite to secure firms' e-mail boundary. Sophos will increase its presence in the U.S. market. ActiveState can expand in Europe.
Oracle Corp. by the end of the year plans to release an upgrade of its JDeveloper tool for Java that backs the latest J2EE standard, which focuses on Web services.
Legato Systems Inc. last month week unveiled an add-on to its NetWorker back-up software that aims to simplify the management of system image snapshots created by a variety of storage vendors.