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Symantec goes for more share of wallet: Symantec plans to acquire Altiris for $830 million ($33 per share) in cash. Altiris brings IT asset management into the Symantec portfolio as the company continues to reach out beyond its security roots. Symantec has grown through billions of dollars in acquisitions over the last ten years--Relicore, IMlogic, Bindview, Sygate,...; Tags: SECURITY, Symantec Corp.; Blog posts 2007-01-30
Symantec CEO sees beyond security: Unlike the Oracle/PeopleSoft deal--two companies with overlapping products--Symantec's acquisition of Veritas is about scaling two loosely coupled product domains. Rob Lemos interviews Symantec CEO John Thompson about his company's move to gain scale, venturing beyond its native security space. It will make an interesting case study some day... Recent Symantec buysMay 2004:...; Tags: Symantec Corp.; Blog posts 2004-12-16
The days of consolidation: Oracle buys PeopleSoft. Symantec buys Veritas. Microsoft buys anti-spyware tools.The list goes on. Computing technology is reaching a kind of plateau, where the concepts that underly the base IT infrastructure are fairly mature. In this stage of IT evolution -- which will last a few years -- vendors and customers alike...; Tags: information technology; Blog posts 2004-12-16