Date sent: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:48:04 -0400 From: Alex Eckelberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20080818_02 I've got that deju vu feeling again. Once upon a time, in a land where computer viruses had only started to become a problem, there were many, many antivirus companies. Possibly more AV companies than there were viruses. One company was called Symantec. Another company was called Central Point. One of Central Point's products was something called PC Tools, and it made Central Point fairly wealthy. Lo and behold, Central Point and Symantec wanted to be even *more* wealthy, so they started buying competing companies, so there wouldn't *be* as many competing companies. As I recall, Symantec gobbled up about 18, and Central Point 12, in the space of about a year. Then Symantec bought Central Point. But Symantec was still, at the time, selling Norton Utilities, so I suppose they decided to sell PC Tools to someone. And now they've bought it back. (I will *never* understand business ...) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - G. K. Chesterton victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
