Cisco announced its intent to acquire privately held Reactivity, a maker of specialized XML processing hardware, for $135 million this morning. The Reactivity technology will eventually be built into the Cisco security architecture. The merger of Cisco and Reactivity could make it easier for enterprises to build a common structure for Web services security in at the network level, experts say. Cisco has attacked the Web services market before, when it introduced its Application-Oriented Networking (AON) technology in 2005.”]
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