In 2005 year-end filings, Ashcroft's firm reported collecting $ 269, 000, including $ 220, 000 from Oracle Corporation, which won Department of Justice approval of a multibillion-dollar acquisition less than a month after hiring Ashcroft.

In April 2005, Mandrakesoft announced the corporate acquisition of Conectiva, a Brazilian based company that produced a Linux distribution for Portuguese-speaking ( Brazil ) and Spanish-speaking Latin America.

In 2005, PGP Corporation made its first acquisition — the German software company Glück & Kanja Technology AG, which is now PGP Deutschland AG.

In early October 2005 the company announced acquisition of an 18. 53 % stake in Volkswagen AG ( VW AG ), and disclosed intentions to acquire additional VW AG shares in the future.

From 1998 until 2005 the largest shareholder in Saab was the British aerospace company BAE Systems, following its acquisition of a 35 % stake from Investor AB by its predecessor, British Aerospace.

As a result of Paramount's 2005 acquisition of DreamWorks, Paramount has gained North America distribution rights as well ( though still through the DreamWorks division ).

In recent years, the chronically high inflation has been brought under control and this has led to the launch of a new currency, the " New Turkish lira ", on January 1, 2005, to cement the acquisition of the economic reforms and erase the vestiges of an unstable economy.

Together with the May 2005 acquisition of full rights to the Palm brand name, only Palm can publish releases of the operating system under the name ' Palm OS '.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne ( PWR ) was formed in 2005 when Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion and Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power were merged following the latter's acquisition from Boeing.

Groove was initially developed by Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie, and developed by Groove Networks of Beverly, Massachusetts until Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks in March 2005.

In 2005 Eidos was taken over by SCi and Livingstone was then the only former board member to be retained, taking on the role of product acquisition director.

The 2005 acquisition of WCAL in Northfield, Minnesota, which covers the Minneapolis-St. Paul and Rochester areas, provided the opportunity to launch another music service, " The Current ".

According to a report issued in 2007 by the Basque Court of Auditors, the museum paid more than US $ 27 million for the acquisition of art between 2002 and 2005, including Serra's ' The Matter of Time ' for the cavernous ground-floor gallery.

On October 4, 2005, Autodesk, makers of 3ds Max and AutoCAD drafting software, announced plans to acquire Alias in a cash acquisition valued at US $ 182 million.

This rivalry continued even after the Aldus acquisition, because FreeHand was not included, but Adobe eventually acquired Freehand in 2005 with its acquisition of then-owner Macromedia.

The acquisition took place on December 3, 2005, and Adobe integrated the company's operations, networks, and customer-care organizations shortly thereafter.

The takeover achieved 90 % acceptance on 17 June 2005, and 100 % ownership was announced on 2 August 2005, achieved through compulsory acquisition of the last 10 % of the shares.

The first foreign sale of the GBU-28 was the acquisition of 100 units by Israel, authorized in April 2005.

Several people on the Something Awful forums, who were unhappy about TV Tome after its acquisition decided to rebuild the content and created The TV IV in July 2005.

EPisodeWorld ( short EPW ) was created after TV Tome's acquisition in 2005 and went public on September 25, 2005.

By acquiring companies including PNC Mortgage, Fleet Mortgage and Homeside Lending, WaMu became the third-largest mortgage lender in the U. S. With the acquisition of Providian Financial Corporation in October 2005, WaMu also became the nation's 9th-largest credit-card company.

* 2005: Popular completes acquisition of Quaker City Bank, establishing California as the largest region of Banco Popular North America.

For the 2005 model year, the Sequoia received a mild facelift.

In 2005, Dr. Ramos was appointed Superintendent of Sequoia School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, a charter school in Arizona with two campuses — in Mesa and Phoenix.

After the six-year voting ban on Bal Thackeray was lifted in 2005, he voted for the first time in the 2006 BMC elections .< ref name =" Voting ban lifted ">

In 2005, to honor the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Young, William Wachtel and Norman Ornstein founded Why Tuesday ?, a nonpartisan group dedicated to increasing voter participation by moving the national voting day from Tuesday to the weekend.

In June 2005, the Tallahassee Democrat reported that when given access to Diebold optical scan vote-counting computers, Black Box Voting, a nonprofit election watchdog group founded by Bev Harris, hired Finnish computer expert Harri Hursti and conducted a project in which vote totals were altered, by replacing the memory card that stores voting results with one that had been tampered with.

A second report was released in September 2005 detailing some of the concerns with electronic voting, and ongoing improvements, titled " Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed ".

A co-founder of the BC Electoral Change Coalition in 1997, he served on the board of Fair Voting BC ( 2000 – 2002, 2006 – 2009 ) and on the board of Fair Vote Canada ( 2005 – 2007 ).

* American Center For Voting Rights, August 2, 2005, report.

Voting in executive elections has seen a downward trend from a high of more than 50 % in the 1960s to approximately 17 % ( 2005 ) of student members, up from the late 1990s.

Leung, " Voting Algorithms for Discovering Long Motifs ", Proceedings of the Third Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference ( APBC2005 ), 261-271 ( January 2005 )

In December 2005, the Washington Post reported, " Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo " uncovered by the newspaper.

*" Evidence of Political Manipulation at the Justice Department: How Tom DeLay's Redistricting Plan Avoided Voting Rights Act Disapproval ", by Mark Posner, FindLaw. com Legal News, December 6, 2005.

* Avionics Training: Systems, Installation, and Troubleshooting by Len Buckwalter ( Paperback-Jun 30, 2005 )

In September 2005, a report by Cisco Systems suggested that the pool of available addresses would exhaust in as little as 4 to 5 years.

The theory has been presented in 2005 by Marc W. Kirschner, a professor and chair of Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, and John C. Gerhart, a professor in Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

MINIX 3 was publicly announced on 24 October 2005 by Andrew Tanenbaum during his keynote speech on top of the ACM Symposium Operating Systems Principles conference.

* In 2005, Macrovision acquired ZeroG Software, creators of InstallAnywhere ( direct competition to InstallShield MP ( MultiPlatform )), and Trymedia Systems.

Flash is currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems, as the result of their 2005 purchase of Macromedia.

In January 2005, BAE Systems reduced its shareholding to 20 %.

* James E. Smith, Ravi Nair, Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms For Systems And Processes, Morgan Kaufmann, May 2005, ISBN 1-55860-910-5, 656 pages ( covers both process and system virtual machines )

With the global move of the server and storage brands to the System brand with the Systems Agenda, the family was renamed yet again to System p5 in 2005.

Greater interdisciplinary cooperation is further evidenced by the February 2005 creation of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management, a joint venture including leading associations in security ( ASIS ), information security ( ISSA, the Information Systems Security Association ), and IT audit ( ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association ).

In July 2005, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network labelled Niger with emergency status, as well as Chad, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia and Zimbabwe.

In 2005, they were used in a variety of applications, such as automobile engine diagnostics ( Mahindra & Mahindra in Mumbai ), tracking of iron-ore movement from mine pithead to shipping point ( Dempo, Goa ), Microcredit ( Sanghamitra, Mysore ), Electronic Money Transfer between UK and Ghana ( XK8 Systems, UK ), and others.

PicoPeta was acquired by Geodesic Information Systems ( a developer of communication and collaboration systems ) in 2005.

* 308th Armament Systems Wing, 27 January 2005 – present

Systems similar to GM's were implemented by other major companies, especially in the United States, and they eventually undermined the ability to compete with companies that used different accounting, according to Waddell & Bodek's 2005 analysis.

He did his doctoral work in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech from 1999 to 2005.

In the summer of 2005, the PRC purchased over 200 routers from an American company, Cisco Systems that allowed the PRC government a more advanced technological censoring ability.

* Tally Systems — 2005

Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia products.

On April 18, 2005, Adobe Systems announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia in a stock swap valued at about $ 3. 4 billion on the last trading day before the announcement.

* Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970, exh. cat., London: Tate Modern, 2005

*" Interview with Jan Kaplicky-Future Systems " by Alessandra Orlandoni-The Plan 008 January 2005

In late 2005 the government announced that the surviving A-4Ks and Aermacchi MB-339Cs, 17 of each type, ( not counting A-4s in museums ), were to be sold to US company Tactical Air Systems for use in jet training, subject to the US government approval.