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In ebizQ's continuing coverage of vendors in our space, last week's acquisition of Reactivity by Cisco is major news.

According to Cisco, "The acquisition demonstrates Cisco's commitment to the expanding Application Networking Services (ANS) Advanced Technology segment, which is an important part of Cisco's Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) strategy and vision.

"Cisco ANS provides customers with shared application-aware services to improve the availability, performance, and security of applications delivered from the network platform. Reactivity complements and extends the capability of Cisco's ANS portfolio for these emerging application architectures."

ebizQ has been covering Reactivity for a long time, and we've continually been impressed with Reactivity’s technology, that seeks to "deliver security, reliability, and scalability functions in an application-oriented networking layer." Reactivity says they were the first to introduce XML firewalls, and they continue to lead with innovations that simplify and scale XML-based integration and Web service delivery.

Billed as the only "scaleable, comprehensive, and cost-effective solution for infrastructure-enablement capabilities, our Intelligent XML-integration technology implements the best practices standard for SOA and Web 2.0 networks," Cisco is surely making an interesting foray into Service-Oriented networking with this acquisition.

Cisco will pay approximately $135 million in cash and assumed options of Reactivity. The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions, including applicable regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in the third quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2007, ending April 28, 2007. Reactivity was founded in 1998 and has 56 employees in Redwood City, Calif.

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