Raptor Systems Inc has signed a deal with Digital Equipment Corp for the Maynard, Massachusetts company to resell and integrate Raptor’s Eagle family of firewall products for Windows NT through its NT-riddled services division. DEC will resell the products as part of its Internet Services portfolio. The Waltham, Massachusetts company, in which Compaq Computer Corp among others has a small stake, has version 4.0 of Eagle for Unix out this month, with the NT version due in September. Raptor has also taken Microsystems Software Inc’s Cyber Patrol filtering software, originally developed for parents to stop their children seeing what they shouldn’t see on the Internet, for Eagle, and will be included in the new version. Privately-held Framingham, Massachusetts-based Microsystems has a list of Cyber Not locations that are inappropriate in a business environment, including a sports and leisure section. Raptor said that in the fourth calendar quarter this year it shipped a previous version of Eagle split 50-50 between Unix and Windows NT, and expects that to tilt in favor of NT in the quarter just gone. Eagle 4.0 for Unix costs from $7,000 to $15,000 and the NT version will be from $6,500 to $15,000. Meantime, Raptor reported its fir st profitable quarter in its history, with net profit for the second quarter of $150,000, against losses of $559,000 a year before on revenues that rose to $2.9m, from $725,000 previously. Net losses for the six months to June 30 were $279,000, down from $973,000 previously, as revenues were up to $5.0m, from $1.1m a year earlier. The company’s balance sheet was boosted by the $50m initial public offering in February, the cash line standing at $51.5m, from $1.9m the previous year. Shares got away at $15, and were at around $19 last week.
