Microsoft Buys Security Vendor -- Redmond Channel Partner

Pender's Blog by Lee Pender, RCPU Editor

Microsoft Buys Security Vendor

Redmond aims to boost Forefront and OneCare with the purchase of pleasingly named Komoku. It's sort of too bad, though, that Komoku couldn't have hooked up with Ubuntu Linux somehow, because "Komoku Ubuntu" kind of sounds as though it could be the name of a guy who might be a favorite to win the Olympic marathon this year.

Posted by Lee Pender on March 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM

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