Symantec Acquires Sygate

[The Hunter]

Symantec, creator of the popular antivirus software Norton, purchased security firm Sygate earlier this week in a deal that will add to the software maker's already impressive line of acquisitions in the past year. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Previous to the Sygate acquisition, Symantec acquired TurnTide, Brightmail, On Technology and SafeWeb, as well as storage-software maker Veritas. Sygate makes software that ensures compliance with security regulations, as well as software to govern access to network devices.

Commentary here: http://www.betanews.com/article/Symantec_A...gate/1124477148

My commentary here: This will probably become a lesson on how to turn something thats popular, and actually works, into another piece of bloated crap.

[rainbowdemon]

My commentary here: This will probably become a lesson on how to turn something thats popular, and actually works, into another piece of bloated crap.

Indeed. I was just thinking, "there goes a nice little firewall".

[The Hunter]

I just downloaded the latest release to burn, so i would still have something that worked. Now Im going to quote something I stated elsewhere.

IMHO, Symantic must be getting kickbacks from computer manufacturers, just to make the most bloated cycle robbing software, so as to fool people into thinking they need the latest cpu just to run their crap.