Counterpane is in the software bouncer business and stations its virtual doorman around the networks of some 550 of the richest companies about. BT reckons it can make a few bob in that business. Sounds a bit like double glazing for Windows.
It wouldn't say how much it forked up for the firm although a star gazer Reuters claims to have consulted suggested around $40 million. With annual sales of around $20 million, our own financial tea leaves suggest a bit more than that.
The firm's biggest claim to fame is that its founder and chief technology guru Bruce Schneier got a name check in the multi million-selling Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
That was for being a clever cryptologist. Not for jumping out of a aeroplane into the Tiber using his underpants as a parachute. µ
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