Microsoft closes Whale buy, reveals road map
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft closed its acquisition of VPN vendor Whale Communications on Wednesday, and outlined a road map for how it would integrate Whale's products into its own security portfolio.
Microsoft will continue to sell existing Whale products, the Whale Intelligent Application Gateway and Whale's application optimizers, and is offering a 25 percent discount on them until Dec. 31, 2006, said Steve Brown, a director of product management for Microsoft.
Pricing for the Whale Intelligent Application Gateway starts at $18,000, while pricing for the application optimizers varies based on the number of concurrent users and applications accessed, Microsoft said.