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Check Point calls off Sourcefire buy
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-03-24

Security company Check Point Software Technologies called off its planned $225 million acquisition of intrusion-prevention firm Sourcefire on Thursday, a week before a federal watchdog was scheduled to release a report which insiders say would have blocked the merger on the grounds of national-security interests.

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Re: Check Point calls off Sourcefire buy 2006-03-27
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Eh, this is no big deal. SourceFire isn't a very good IDS/IPS and CheckPoint isn't a very good firewall. SourceFire shoud get a better buyer anyway. Somebody to improve their products. CheckPoint should just die. I don't know why anybody buys their firewalls any longer.

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