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What's the deal with the Barracuda offer for Sourcefire?

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2008-05-30 00:45:14 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Sourcefire at about 200 million dollars and is a 13% premium over the Friday closing price. Of course this is well below Sourcefire's historical highs, but than again who is worth what they were a few months ago. I have a chart on the left that shows stock prices So what is behind this deal? I think it is all about ClamAV and the Trend Micro...
 
Tags: sourcefire, barracuda offer, barracuda, offer, sourcefire board, sourcefire management team, million, dean, reason dean takes
 
 
 
 
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What's the deal with the Barracuda offer for Sourcefire?

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2008-05-29 23:50:21 by HASH0x8b56034 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Sourcefire at about 200 million dollars and is a 13% premium over the Friday closing price. Of course this is well below Sourcefire's historical highs, but than again who is worth what they were a few months ago. I have a chart on the left that shows stock prices So what is behind this deal? I think it is all about ClamAV and the Trend Micro...
 
Tags: sourcefire, dean, reason dean takes, sourcefire management team, barracuda, dean drako, values sourcefire, trend micro suit, suit
 
 
 
 
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Wayne Jackson out over at Sourcefire

2008-02-27 17:05:23 by HASH0x8b398e0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Sourcefire. Having seen a few of these kinds of situations but not having any inside information, it looks to me like a mutual decision and probably tied to earnings and performance versus market expectations. In any event, Wayne has done a great job of taking Sourcefire from a good open source project to a public company. As much as Marty is...
 
Tags: wayne, wayne jackson, sourcefire, guide sourcefire, time wayne, public company, street expectations, expectations, company
 
 
 
 
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Wayne Jackson out over at Sourcefire

2008-02-27 18:02:38 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Sourcefire. Having seen a few of these kinds of situations but not having any inside information, it looks to me like a mutual decision and probably tied to earnings and performance versus market expectations. In any event, Wayne has done a great job of taking Sourcefire from a good open source project to a public company. As much as Marty is...
 
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Barracuda to Sourcefire: We see your CEO bet, and raise you to $8.25, call

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2008-06-24 23:27:47 by HASH0x8b44ef8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Sourcefire today raising their $7.50 all cash bid to $8.25 . Are Dean and company just bluffing for publicity or are they willing to keep playing and stay in this game until all the cards are on the table? I don't know for sure, but find it interesting that Barracuda did say to Sourcefire that they would be willing to explore ways that would...
 
Tags: barracuda, sourcefire, barracuda continues, poker game, game, offer, cash bid, reap, table
 
 
 
 
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Barracuda to Sourcefire: We see your CEO bet, and raise you to $8.25, call

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2008-06-25 00:27:26 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Sourcefire today raising their $7.50 all cash bid to $8.25 . Are Dean and company just bluffing for publicity or are they willing to keep playing and stay in this game until all the cards are on the table? I don't know for sure, but find it interesting that Barracuda did say to Sourcefire that they would be willing to explore ways that would...
 
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How we tested Sourcefire's 3D System

2008-01-21 00:00:00 by Joel Snyder in Network World on Security
 
We installed two IPS sensors within our production network, one based on Sourcefire hardware and based on Nokia hardware Gartner Webinar: WAN Optimization Scalability Advertisement Gartner distinguished analyst Mark Fabbi discusses key requirements for deploying WAN optimization
 
Tags: wan optimization, wan optimization scalability, gartner webinar, gartner, sourcefire hardware, nokia hardware, ips sensors, production network, based
 
 
 
 
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Sourcefire boasts strong IPS management toolset

2008-01-21 00:00:00 by Joel Snyder in Network World on Security
 
SourceFires most recent release of its 3D System certainly puts the company on the right track to making network intrusion-detection/prevention systems useful tools in the enterprise. In the Sourcefire 3D System Version 4.7, we found substantial progress in areas specific to management and configuration of the IPS, along with newly integrated...
 
Tags: link user information, system, system version, security incidents, substantial progress, recent release, sourcefire, ips, tools
 
 
 
 
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Antispam appliance vendor Barracuda wants to buy Sourcefire

2008-05-30 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Security appliance vendor Barracuda Networks is looking to buy Sourcefire, makers of the open-source Snort and ClamAV security software
 
Tags: clamav security software, sourcefire, open-source snort, makers