IBM Buys Watchfire to Bolster Security and Compliance Testing
June 11, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Big Blue likes Watchfire‘s AppScan security and compliance testing software so much that last week, rather than buy a lot more of its software, it went out an bought the whole company. Increasingly, IBM thinks of itself less as a systems company and more as a provider of software and services, and it seems to like nothing better than a product or a strategy, like services oriented architecture (SOA) tools, that seems to do a little of both. IBM also likes security products that fill in gaps in IBM’s software product line, and the AppScan products not only fill |