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Obama Looking To Symantec CEO For Commerce
patentpundit writes "Word has started to circulate that President Barack Obama may be close to appointing John W. Thompson, the outgoing chief executive of network security firm Symantec Corp., to be the next Secretary of Commerce. According to the LA Times, over the last several days Thompson has spoken on the telephone and met with key senators, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), a member of the commerce committee that would hold confirmation hearings for any appointed Secretary of Commerce, is 'extremely supportive and hopeful he'll be the nominee.' The appointment of Thompson to head the Department of Commerce would be an exceptionally interesting choice given that only days ago President Obama asked Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to lead his open source charge and conduct a study and report back regarding the feasibility of the US government forgoing proprietary software and moving toward open source software solutions."
Thompson had a career at the IBM Corporation and serves as a director on the corporate boards of UPS and Seagate Technology.
This game will waste your life. Don't clicky!
Hey, ghost is a great product. ( ya, i know they bought it a good decade ago, but all the legacy code is long gone by now )
And their latest acquisition: Altiris is nothing to sneeze at either.
They are *much* more then antivirus. ( which i agree, sux )
---- Booth was a patriot ----
It certainly wasn't Obama, but SOMEONE in the administration that asked McNealy to write a paper on open source in government. That is not the same as leading a "charge."
Interestingly, Symantec reports earnings today. Gotta believe at least one of the analysts will ask about the reports (and be given a long winded "no comment."
The Democrat and Republican parties are the two sides of a counterfeit coin. Heads? they win, tails? we lose. Their core agenda is unified, and they have perfected the art of keeping half the country fighting the other half to support it. I'm waiting for an ex-Professional wrestler to show up with magic sunglasses (I won't fight it, I'll put them on right away).
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What's your point? :grin:
http://www.symantec.com/norton/macintosh/antivirus
It is because of incompetence. There is nothing wrong with Exchange in the hands of somebody that knows the product. Alternatives include products such as Sun's Communication Suite and IBM's Lotus Domino.
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