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Symantec, Veritas Merger Approved

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the come-together dept.

stuuf writes "Shareholders today voted to approve a merger between Symantec and Veritas. The deal, announced last December, was valued at $13.5 billion. However, some of Symantec's investors have backed off since then, and the merger, expected to close on July 2, is now valued at only $11 billion. Many of Symantec's products have been losing popularity recently; the merger may be good news for Veritas's competitors."

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  1. Value of the Symantec AV solution by Baron_Yam · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It's been my experience that:
    • It doesn't catch as high a percentage of viruses as its major competitors.
    • The Symantec Server Console doesn't accurately reflect the state of the clients it is supposedly monitoring.
    • Symantec AV will crash a moderately loaded file server in several different common situations.
    • The Symantec Client causes many application problems on workstations - including with Outlook, which you'd expect to be the first app properly tested for compatibility.

    The only reason I work with it is that many PHBs seem to have IBM syndrome - "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".

    And now we can look forward to that 'expertise' being brought to a backup solution. WHEE!