CA buys antispam company

Computer Associates International announced Tuesday its cash acquisition of Qurb, an e-mail security software maker, a further expansion for CA into security industry. CA, which previously licensed Qurb's technology for its eTrust consumer products, will integrate Qurb's antispam tool into its eTrust Threat Management Suite. San Mateo, Calif.-based Qurb develops antispam, antiphishing and antifraud software.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CA's acquisition of the privately held Qurb follow its acquisition last month of Tiny Software, a desktop and server security applications company.

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Good for CA

The more security-insecure programming MFST churns out, the more shrewd firms like CA &
TrendMicro are investing in cleaning up
behind the mess MSFT leaves behind.

It's a good business to be in, with solid continued promise for growth.

Partciularly with last week's inauspicious
"advance showing" of the "security
improvements" coming up in the
2006/7 Vista OS.

The irony of this whole deal is that MSFT
will probably have the last laugh. They
saw the game from day one with accuracy
- the more the customer demands in easy
/fast browsing and up/downloading, the
faster they are to meeting those demands.
You want more ad's? They got 'em ready
for us in MSN Search! One cannot blame
MSFT for this kind of strategic plan.

For all those who gripe, it is working.
Sun is near-bankrupt, while MFST is the
one who is benefitting the most from
the demand for Linux apps.