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Veritas acquires e-mail archiver KVS, 08/31/04
Veritas Tuesday acquired Kvault Software Limited, better known as KVS, for an all cash transaction valued at $225 million.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831veritaskvs.html?nl
IT spending to boom in 2008, 08/31/04
IT buyers will maintain business as usual for the next five years, increasing spending on average 6% annually, and by 2008 the tech economy will see another boom, Forrester Research says.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831itspend.html?nl
FrontBridge buys MessageRite, 08/30/04
E-mail security company FrontBridge Technologies has bought MessageRite of Irvine, Calif., a maker of technology for archiving e-mail and instant messages, FrontBridge said Monday.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0830frontbuys.html?nl
California cities, counties sue Microsoft, 08/28/04
Six California counties and cities Friday filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft accusing the software giant of violating California law with anti-competitive business practices.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0828califcitie.html?nl
Oracle again extends offer for PeopleSoft, 08/27/04
Oracle’s hostile bid to acquire rival enterprise software maker PeopleSoft for $7.7 billion is set to continue for a bit longer.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0827oraclagain.html?nl
VeriSign dealt another legal blow in ICANN suit, 08/27/04
VeriSign Thursday lost another round in its battle against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers when a U.S. federal judge dismissed the company’s anti-trust claims, filed in an …
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0827verisdealt.html?nl
Japan helps drive surge in global patent applications, 08/26/04
Latest figures for the number of applications for international patent filing by companies through the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) point to continued international recovery …
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0826japanhelps.html?nl
IBM buys content integration vendor, 08/26/04
To help its customers get a handle on all the data scattered across their enterprises, IBM Thursday announced plans to acquire Venetica, a privately held company that makes content integration software.
