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Irvine-based EON Reality, a developer of 3D software simulation environments, disclosed today that the firm has installed one of its virtual reality systems in Canada. The firm said that it has installed its products at the Visual Psychophysics and Perception Laboratory at the University of Montreal. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. The firm said the new system will be used for virtual training and rehabilitation related to athletic performance. READ MORE>> Tags: software

Carlsbad-based Dot Hill Systems, a manufacturer of external RAID storage devices, said today that it is in a definitive purchase agreement to buy Cloverleaf Communications, a software firm developing storage virtualization and storage management products. The deal is worth $2.5M in cash plus approximately $9.5M shares of its common stock. Cloverleaf has headquarters in New York, with research and development in Israel. Dot Hill said the buy would broaden its reach into storage virtualization, data management services software, and the unified storage market. Elic Yavor and Yosi Klein, two of Cloverleaf's founders, are among those joining Dot Hill as part of the acquisition. Tags: development, research, software

PC World - This must be a joke: A Novell corporate blog item that chastises the City of Los Angeles for recently selecting Google Apps to replace Novell's GroupWise e-mail and calendaring software. Tags: blog, software