synopsis: Wind River Systems, Inc., the global leader in Device Software Optimization has acquired the intellectual property including patents, copyrights, trademarks and associated product rights for RTLinux, the software industry’s only commercially-available, patented, hard real-time Linux technology developed by Finite State Machine Labs, Inc.

synopsis: Iron Mountain Incorporated today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Marlborough, Mass.-based LiveVault Corporation. LiveVault is a leading provider of disk-based online server backup and recovery solutions for small and mid-size businesses and for corporations with remote offices.

synopsis: HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Trustgenix, Inc., a leading provider of federated identity management solutions. Upon the closing of the acquisition, HP plans to integrate Trustgenix and its software solutions into the HP OpenView management software portfolio.

synopsis: DCSD is the business unit of Diebold, Incorporated dedicated to campus card and housing management systems for colleges and universities.

synopsis: Cisco Systems Inc., maker of networking and communications products, is buying approximately an 80 percent stake in Nuova Systems for $50 million. Nuova, based in Santa Clara, Calif. and founded by former Cisco executives, develops next-generation data systems.

synopsis: CA announced that it has completed its acquisition of Wily Technology, a leading provider of enterprise application management solutions, for $375 million in an all-cash transaction.

synopsis: Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced the successful completion of its tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of NEON Systems, Inc., by a subsidiary of Progress.

synopsis: Shah Capital Partners, a technology private equity firm, announced today that it has acquired Ingenient Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of embedded multimedia software solutions for delivering video, audio and data on a range of platforms.

synopsis: Aperture, the leading global provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of data centers, has announced the completion of its acquisition by Emerson, effective March 25, 2008. This follows shareholder approval of the acquisition proposal first announced on February 25, 2008.

synopsis: Oracle Corporation announced that it had received approval of the European Commission and subsequently completed its acquisition of BEA Systems, Inc.

synopsis: Enea a world leading provider of telecom software and services, has acquired Swedish QiValue Technologies, a leading provider of Linux solutions. The acquisition will bolster Enea’s Linux expertise, strengthen its software offering, and increase Enea’s ability to offer Embedded Linux solutions.

synopsis: Clerity Solutions, Inc. has acquired Sun Microsystems' mainframe rehosting business. On June 30, 2006, Clerity acquired the intellectual property assets and hired Sun employees directly involved in the mainframe rehosting solution business.

synopsis: Oracle announced additions to its best-in-class identity management suite designed to meet the diverse needs of organizations across all industries. With the acquisition of OctetString, a leading provider of virtual directory software, Oracle has significantly strengthened its portfolio of industry-leading identity and access management products.

synopsis: BakBone Software a global provider of data protection software, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of privately-held Constant Data, Inc. of Hopkins, Minnesota. The acquisition marks BakBone's entry into the data replication and high availability software market.

synopsis: IBM Corp. said Wednesday that it has acquired Collation, a privately-held manufacturer of information technology software, for an undisclosed amount. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM said that the deal will strengthen its systems-management software portfolio and increase its ability to simplify the way companies manage their infrastructures.

synopsis: SAP AG announced that it has completed the acquisition of Sybase, Inc. As a result of this transaction, customers will be able to better harness today's explosion of data and deliver information and insight in real time to business consumers wherever they work so they can make faster, more informed decisions.

synopsis: VMware, Inc. and EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for VMware to acquire certain software products and expertise from EMC's Ionix IT management business.

synopsis: UnXis, Inc. announced that the purchase of The SCO Group, Inc. operating assets and intellectual property rights has been successfully completed. The SCO Group is a leading provider of software technology for distributed, embedded, network-based systems.

synopsis: Harman International Industries Incorporated, the global audio and infotainment group, announced the sale of its software operating systems unit, QNX Software Systems. Harman has sold the business to Research In Motion Limited of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, for US$200M.

synopsis: Fixstars Corporation, a pioneering company in Cell Broadband Engine™ based solutions, announced the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Terra Soft Solutions, the world renowned developer of Yellow Dog Linux.

synopsis: Wind River Systems, Inc., the global leader in Device Software Optimization has acquired the intellectual property including patents, copyrights, trademarks and associated product rights for RTLinux, the software industry’s only commercially-available, patented, hard real-time Linux technology developed by Finite State Machine Labs, Inc.

synopsis: Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, announced it will add the Virtutech product line to its embedded software product portfolio after the completion of Intel Corporation’s acquisition of Virtutech. Virtutech, Inc. is the leader in product development process improvement through virtualized systems development (VSD).

synopsis: Intel Corporation has announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Wind River Systems Inc. Wind River is a leading software vendor in embedded devices, and is part of Intel’s strategy to grow its processor and software presence outside the traditional PC and server market segments into embedded systems and mobile handheld devices.

synopsis: Wind River announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held Tilcon Software Limited, a leading provider of software for creating and deploying graphical user interfaces in embedded devices. Founded in 1987 and located in Ottawa, Canada, Tilcon currently has 18 employees and is exclusively focused on embedded graphics solutions.

synopsis: Wind River, the global leader in Device Software Optimization, announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of MIZI Research, Inc. MIZI, based in Seoul, Korea, focuses on the development of mobile application platforms based on embedded Linux.

synopsis: Wind River Systems, Inc, the global leader in Device Software Optimization, today announced that it has acquired privately-held S.C. Comsys S.R.L., an embedded software professional services organization based in Romania. Wind River will pay up to US$1.4 million to acquire all outstanding shares of Comsys.

synopsis: Wind River Systems, Inc., the global leader in Device Software Optimization has acquired the intellectual property including patents, copyrights, trademarks and associated product rights for RTLinux, the software industry’s only commercially-available, patented, hard real-time Linux technology developed by Finite State Machine Labs, Inc.

synopsis: Wind River Systems, Inc. WIND, the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced that is has acquired privately-held Interpeak AB of Stockholm, Sweden. Under the terms of the agreement, Wind River paid approximately $20 million in cash and restricted stock for Interpeak.

synopsis: Wind River Systems, Inc., the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), announced it has acquired the ScopeTools business unit of its long-standing partner, Real-Time Innovations, Inc. (RTI).

synopsis: Intel Corporation has announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Wind River Systems Inc. Wind River is a leading software vendor in embedded devices, and is part of Intel’s strategy to grow its processor and software presence outside the traditional PC and server market segments into embedded systems and mobile handheld devices.

synopsis: SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java, announced the acquisition of G2One Inc., the company behind the popular Groovy and Grails technologies.

synopsis: VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, announced the completion of its acquisition of SpringSource, a leader in enterprise and web application development and management.

synopsis: Micro Focus announces that it has agreed to acquire Acucorp Inc. for a total cash consideration of US$40.7m, paid in full on completion, plus a working capital adjustment capped at a maximum value of US$250,000.

synopsis: Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, announced that it has acquired Aptimize Limited, a privately-owned company that is a market leader in web content optimization. The Aptimize organization, based in Wellington, New Zealand, will become the new Web Content Optimization product group, led by the former CEO of Aptimize, Ed Robinson.

synopsis: Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and tablet applications using Web technologies announced that it has acquired Aptana®, the leading integrated development environment (IDE) for building web applications.

synopsis: Dell has acquired Clerity Solutions, a leading global provider of applications modernization and re-hosting solutions and services. Clerity’s capabilities will enable Dell Services to help customers reduce the cost of transitioning business-critical applications and data from legacy computing systems and onto more modern architectures.

synopsis: Unify Corp., a global provider of application modernization solutions, announced it has acquired CipherSoft Inc., a privately held company based in Calgary, Canada. Having modernized hundreds of customers’ applications, CipherSoft is a leading Oracle partner for modernization and migration of Oracle applications.

synopsis: Enea, a world leading provider of network software and services, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire IP Devel SRL. The acquisition of IP Devel provides Enea with a base on which to expand its European business and it also secures development capacity for its own products.

synopsis: Nokia announced that it has completed its acquisition of Trolltech, a recognized software provider with world-class software development platforms and frameworks.

synopsis: Unify Corp. a global provider of development and database software, has closed the acquisition of Gupta Technologies, LLC from Halo Technology Holdings, Inc. Unify expects the combined effect of this transaction to be accretive to pro forma earnings going forward and to double Unify’s annual revenues.

synopsis: Athena Smartcard Solutions, smart card technology innovator and developer of the ASECard Crypto family of Enterprise and Government Identity solutions announces the acquisition of Aspects Software's smart card OS assets including the Aspects OS755 Java Card and development platforms.

synopsis: Oracle has agreed to acquire mValent, a leading provider of application configuration management solutions. mValent is expected to enhance Oracle Enterprise Manager with extensive capabilities for managing application configurations across IT environments.

synopsis: BAE Systems has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Swedish high-tech company Pitch Technologies AB for a cash consideration of 61.3 MSEK.

synopsis: Agilysys, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise computer technology solutions, today announced it has completed its acquisition of The CTS Corporations. CTS is a leading, independent services organization, specializing in information technology (IT) storage solutions for large and medium-sized corporate customers, and public-sector clients.

synopsis: AWR, the innovation leader in high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA), announced it has acquired Simulation Technology and Applied Research, Inc., (STAAR), of Mequon, WI, a developer of 3D parallelized FEM tools for EM simulation of components and subsystems operating at RF and microwave frequencies.

synopsis: SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, extended its enterprise solid state disk drive (SSD) solutions portfolio with the acquisition of FlashSoft, a provider of innovative caching software products. FlashSoft’s software is targeted for Windows, Linux and VMWare platforms.

synopsis: Rocket Software, Inc., a global software development firm that builds enterprise products and delivers enterprise solutions, announced that it has closed the acquisition of the iCluster business from IBM. iCluster offers software for High Availability/Disaster Recovery.

synopsis: Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gluster, Inc., a leading provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions for standardizing the management of unstructured data.

synopsis: Fusion-io, Inc., a provider of a next-generation shared data decentralization platform, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IO Turbine, Inc., a provider of caching solutions for virtual environments. IO's approach makes the most of Flash storage to transparently and significantly accelerate virtualized application performance.