http://www.thestandard.com./node/112776/comments comments feed. en Short takes http://www.thestandard.com./news/2008/09/08/short-takes <p><!--paging_filter--> <p>-- In an affidavit filed in federal court, former CA Inc. CEO Sanjay Kumar implicated company founders Charles Wang and Russell Artzt and former board members Alfonse D'Amato and Lewis Ranieri in an accounting fraud scandal at the company. Kumar is serving a prison term on charges related to the scandal.</p> <p>-- Oracle Corp. has agreed to buy ClearApp Inc., a maker of software for managing the performance of SOA-based applications, for an undisclosed sum.</p> <p>-- Open Text Corp. plans to purchase Captaris Inc., a maker of document management and data capture software, for about US$131 million. The deal is set to close by the end of the year.</p> <p>-- Red Hat Inc. has acquired Qumranet Inc., for $107 million. Red Hat said Qumranet's embedded Kernel Virtual Machine platform will let its Enterprise Linux software natively support virtualized Windows machines for the first time.</p> http://www.thestandard.com./news/2008/09/08/short-takes#comments Applications Architecture Corporate Issues Criminal IDGNS Legal Linux Mergers &amp; acquisitions Mergers &amp; Acquisitions non-Windows Operating systems SOA Software Breaking News Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:20:51 -0700 IDG News Service 112776 at http://www.thestandard.com.