HCL and CA team up

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 15 November 2007, 20:30 IST
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New Delhi: Computer Associates International, a software company, and HCL Technologies, an Indian offshore IT & software development company have announced an agreement to establish a strategic partnership under which the HCL would take up all research and product development connected with CA's threat management security business while CA retains the sales and marketing. "The goal of the strategic partnership is to grow CA's threat management business by combining the strengths of both organizations. HCL and CA will achieve goal alignment and financial targets through revenue sharing. The annual revenue of CA's threat management security business is in excess of $100 million," stated a company release. The partnership covers all threat management products, which include anti-virus, anti-spyware, integrated threat manager (ITM), host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS), secure content manager (SCM), Internet security suite, anti-spam and firewall. The partnership is expected to become operational by year-end, following the signing of a definitive agreement.