Today, at the worldwide launch of Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) will give customers a sneak preview of its upcoming Citrix XenApp™ for Windows Server 2008. Citrix XenApp, the company’s flagship application virtualization product line – previously known as Citrix Presentation Server™ – is the industry’s de facto standard for delivering Windows-based applications with the best performance, security and cost savings.

NetScout Systems, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Network General Corporation, in a combined cash, stock, and debt transaction currently valued at approximately $205 million. The acquisition, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, is expected to be completed by early November. Network General employees will become NetScout employees, and the newly combined entity will be headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts.

Scali released the first benchmark data using AMD's newly released Quad-Core Opteron model 2350 processor with the Mellanox ConnectX interconnect. The results highlight the increased importance of high performance MPI and InfiniBand interconnects as the core count increases in current and future systems.

According to early lab test results jointly conducted by BEA and Intel, LiquidVM(TM) -- the foundational technology behind WebLogic Server® Virtual Edition, runs Java over two times more efficiently than using the normal OS-based software stack on VMware Infrastructure. Because LiquidVM runs directly on top of the VMware ESX Server hypervisor platform without a traditional OS, it can manage memory resources for Java applications much more efficiently than the alternative OS model. This can help enable customers to increase hardware utilization and thereby reduce TCO.

Secure Computing Corporation (NasdaqGS:SCUR - News), a leading enterprise gateway security company, today announced that Bimba Manufacturing has switched from a competitor's firewall to the Sidewinder® Network Gateway Security appliance. Bimba's previous firewall did not protect the Illinois-based manufacturer from all malware threats -- particularly viruses in encrypted e-mail messages. However, the Sidewinder appliance, with its unique reputation-based security, blocks viruses and other threats whether they are encrypted or not, in both incoming and outgoing traffic.