Microsoft purchases sybari

Latest Insider. Check out the latest Insider stories here. More from the IDG Network. Brief: Sybari releasing antivirus scanning for SharePoint. Last week, Microsoft announced the purchase of Sybari Software, a privately held anti-virus, anti-spam company. This, evidently, created quite a stir in the anti-virus community.

Gartner analysts, in a written comment of the announcement, said: "Microsoft's entry into this market will challenge anti-virus vendors such as Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro, which derive substantial revenue from upselling enterprises to anti-virus product suites that include desktops and servers The ruckus seems to derive from the fact that Sybari has an "engine" which enables other tools to be plugged in to servers such as Exchange Server to do the actual anti-spam, anti-virus filtering.

But think about it for just a moment folks:. However, Microsoft said that it does plan to add its own anti-virus engine, which it acquired from GeCAD, to the list of those that run on Antigen. That could spell trouble for Sybari's anti-virus engine partners, Burke said. Nash said that internally, Microsoft has already been using the GeCAD engine, now referred to as the "Microsoft antivirus engine," with the Sybari technology.

Nash, however, did not say whether Microsoft would use its anti-virus engine as the default scanning engine for Sybari, or continue to be agnostic about which engines customers use. Microsoft and Sybari were still working out the details of the acquisition and hadn't decided how customers would be able to choose among the scanning engines.

However, Sybari's current business model, which allows choice, is a "good one," and Microsoft wants to "start from there," Nash said. Nash reiterated Microsoft's intention to maintain good relations with other anti-virus providers and said that customers want and benefit from a choice of companies.

However, many of the company's customers want Microsoft to provide antivirus software, and the Sybari acquisition is an attempt to respond to those requests, he said. The company is also considering ways to integrate Sybari's anti-spam software with anti-spam technology that Microsoft already uses for its Hotmail e-mail service, MSN network and Exchange, Nash said.

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