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Symantec to buy Veritas for $13.5 billion

Symantec to buy Veritas for $13.5 billionTrying to make the connection hereSymmantec is largely a retail consumere sales organization. Many of their tools have an enterprise component, but they compete primarily in the retail space. What corperate tools they have certainly are not as specified or support intensive...

Tags: Storage, SECURITY, Mergers & Acquisitions, Symmantec, Symantec Software, Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-12-16

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Is Conficker from China?

Is Conficker from China?Wrong "net"?Sure you got the right "net"? News in Canada said that they found a virus/worm that is specifically infecting systems from diplomats, ambassadors and others and in particularly in those countries that border China.China has of course denied any involvement. The Dali Lama's [sic?] systems have...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Dali Lama, Conficker

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

Microsoft patches URI handling, DNS spoofing flaws

Microsoft patches URI handling, DNS spoofing flawsThe monthly reminder on why you might want to move to Vista..They have not fixed the problem.So far as I can tell from this bulletin they have not actually fixed the problem."This security update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way that Windows shell...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows XP, flaw, URI, critical flaw, Microsoft patches URI, Windows Shell, Norton Co., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., DNS

Discussion threads 2007-11-13

The $100 server nightmare

The $100 server nightmareAcceptable CostI think this is Anton's refrain but MS prices are low enough that once a enterprising deal is negotiated no one worries about them.It's not a coincidence that Red Hat prices are so similar.All software licensing is a nightmare ...We got a new CIO 3 years...

Tags: Servers, server, server nightmare, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

Gloves come off in Symantec, Microsoft dispute

Gloves come off in Symantec, Microsoft disputeMessage has been deleted.Symantec and Microsoftmaking themselves irrelevant by their own coding each day. We'll be leaving Symantec for Sophos later this month after years of up and down performance by the one-time ok or better than McAfee at the time antivirus/security leader....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Vista-Office, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2006-08-25

AOL to enter security arena

AOL to enter security arenaBad timingcoming out with a security product at the same time that M$ is coming out with theirs is bad timing. Symmantec and McAfee are going to lose big - AOL will never get a foothold.God help the unsuspecting buyerAOL's current subscriber security is absolute crap....

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Microsoft Corp., security, America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-06-07

OpenDocument gets standards stamp

OpenDocument gets standards stampSo why don't they do that with ...Now that they have a standard open document format, why not do the same thing with a package management format - one for source, and one for binary? That way, all packages would be built the same way and you...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, KOffice, MS Office Format, Application Packaging, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., OOo

Discussion threads 2005-05-23

Symantec joins the big leagues

Symantec joins the big leaguesLateral moveThe industry that Symantec is known for virus protection is disappearing - as M$ offers more and more add-ons. Rather than compete with M$ - a losing proposition, Symantec took their cash and bought a player before the cash disappeared. This is the lateral move...

Tags: SECURITY, Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., e-mail archiving, America Online Inc., e-mail, KVS

Discussion threads 2004-12-17