Cisco, a world leader in the field of information technology and in particular the provision of networking products, announced it has reached an agreement for the acquisition of Sourcefire, Inc., a company specializing in network security solutions. Cisco will pay $76 for each Sourcefire share, about 30% more than the value they had at the closing of the American Stock Exchange on Monday. The total value of the acquisition is $2.7 billion.

On 15 July 2003 the Mozilla Foundation was created. It’s a non-profit organization that aims to support the development of the Mozilla project. It’s basically the successor of the Mozilla Organization, founded in 1998 to develop the Mozilla Application Suite, a product of Netscape Communications Corporation formed by the web browser Navigator, the e-mail / newsgroup client Communicator and the software for the development of web pages Composer.