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Enterprise Software - Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Enterprise Deals: IBM Buys AptSoft. MSFT Gets Calists

IBM is acquiring AptSoft out of Burlington, MA. Financial details were not disclosed. AptSoft competes in the business event processing software arena. It claims to help customers identify patterns and establish connections between events and then initiates a trigger when a trend emerges.

So AptSoft can be used by retailers, for example, to provide real-time analysis of sales trends and alert them to situations where goods may need to be restocked.

Aptsoft had raised funding from Egan-Managed Capital, Portage Venture Partners and Lazard Technology Partners.

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Clearly unhappy with the state of affairs in the virtualization market and the beating it has taken at the hands of VMware., Microsoft is getting agro here. It has just bought a virtualization start-up called Calista Technologies while also expanded its alliance with Citrix Systems in virtualization.

Microsoft acquired Calista for an undisclosed sum. Calista designs technology that helps compress and deliver virtualized desktops running on a remote computer server. Calista Virtual Desktop – which remotes the complete Windows Vista Desktop experience, including aero-glass, 3D graphics, and full multimedia, to a remote desktop protocol (RDP) client, with what the company claims as the look, feel (and performance) of the “real” desktop.

Microsoft plans to release Windows Server 2008 in February. Some time later in the year, Microsoft plans to introduce Hyper-V, an extra software layer that sits between the hardware and operating system that will compete with VMware's main product.

Calista was founded in April 2006 and has its HQ in San Jose. Greylock and Lightspeed invested in Calista.

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