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Symantec, Veritas Merger Approved
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."
Veritas is so 90s. Vxvm is extremely overrated with features that cannot possibly be deployed in a mission critical environment. If you stick to your regular mirrors, stripes, raids... you mind as well use the FREE Aix LVM or Solaris VM. Which I swear are simpler and better nowadays.
Not to mention Veritas has by far the worst licensing hassle I have ever seen among any vendor. If you're not buying 30 licenses at a time, with already a sales guy contact, forget about it. Try buying just 2 licenses.
The mid-90s veritas was very good, I don't know what happened to them now. They really haven't had an innovative product for years. All their stuff now is bloated beyond hell with way too many patches.
Just remember Veritas is always sales first, marketing second, engineering third. No reason for IBM to want Veritas. They have Tivoli, LVM, their own shark arrays.