Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Cisco spends $135 million on XML firm | CNET News.com

The competitive dynamics continue to shift...

A good day for Mitch Kapor, one of the Reactivity investors. 

The Reactivity product is a specialized piece of hardware that combines software to help companies deploy, control and increase the amount of XML traffic they have throughout their network. The Reactivity XML Gateway software helps companies support and provision new XML-based Web services, and the Reactivity XML Manager software provides real-time visibility and analysis for companies using XML services, according to Reactivity's Web site.

Cisco isn't the only company buying XML appliance start-ups. A year and a half ago, IBM, a longtime Cisco partner, bought a small company called DataPower, which also makes appliances to help companies deploy and manage XML Web services. Computer chipmaker Intel is also in this business with a company it bought in 2005 called Servaga.

Source: Cisco spends $135 million on XML firm | CNET News.com

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