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  • Intel to acquire Wind River for $884 million

    Intel said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Wind River Systems for a total of about $884 million in cash, in an effort to bolster its offerings in the market for processors for embedded systems and mobile devices.

  • Update: EMC bids $1.8 billion for Data Domain

    EMC on Monday moved to head off NetApp's proposed acquisition of data de-duplication vendor Data Domain, offering about US$1.8 billion compared with NetApp's May 20 bid of $1.5 billion.

  • Emulex fends off Broadcom once more

    Emulex has once again rejected an attempt by Broadcom to take over the company, reiterating its stance that the bid undervalues the company and does not adequately compensate its shareholders.

  • Rackable Systems becomes SGI, closes deal

    Rackable Systems has completed its acquisition of Silicon Graphics and will change the name of the combined company to SGI, Rackable announced Monday. It hopes the name change helps it expand its business overseas, where SGI is a better-known brand.

  • Sun shareholders file suit to block sale to Oracle

    Sun Microsystems shareholders filed three separate lawsuits last month in an effort to halt the company's pending sale to Oracle, according to a filing Sun made with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission Friday.

  • Micro Focus buys Borland Software

    Micro Focus International plans to beef up its range of software quality assurance tools with two acquisitions it announced Wednesday.

  • Open Text acquiring Vignette

    Open Text said Wednesday it plans to acquire fellow content management tools provider Vignette for about US$310 million in cash and stock. The deal is expected to be finalized in the second half of this year.

  • OpenSolaris, Linux could merge under Oracle

    Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun's widely used Solaris OS, analysts said.

  • Security vendor Marshal8e6 buys Avinti

    Security vendor Marshal8e6 will buy Avinti, a company which specializes in behavioral technology that scans e-mail and tests malicious content in a virtual machine.

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