when i heard the news, my first two thoughts were:
1) damn, there goes another good security company (the EMC/RSA thing made me sit out on the back porch and quietly watch the sunset)
2) good move by IBM. at least over here, this will give IBM some cred in the threat management and MSS areas.
This acquisition is another shark starting to circle Symantec. The combination of Microsoft and NSP's offering clean pipe options for broadband users means that the consumer AV market is going to drop away over the next 3-4 years. If the big yellow box doesn't diversify really well and really fast, they're going to turn into another Sun.
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1) damn, there goes another good security company (the EMC/RSA thing made me sit out on the back porch and quietly watch the sunset)
2) good move by IBM. at least over here, this will give IBM some cred in the threat management and MSS areas.
This acquisition is another shark starting to circle Symantec. The combination of Microsoft and NSP's offering clean pipe options for broadband users means that the consumer AV market is going to drop away over the next 3-4 years. If the big yellow box doesn't diversify really well and really fast, they're going to turn into another Sun.