I have no insight on intel's plans on their purchase of McAfee. But, if I were to speculate...
$7.7 Billion is no chump change, but they made $4.4 Billion in net income last year, so they can afford it. Also, McAfee may be known to us as slow, bloated and not as effective as some other AV suites, but to the rest of the world they're the #2 AntiVirus company. And they make $2 Billion a year. If I know intel, they will keep the very smart people at McAfee, and a few of the higher-up muckidy-mucks as well... then let the others go through attrition. They will take the McAfee product and immediately slap their logo on the box, (but won't replace the McAfee logo or name just yet) and leave the product unchanged for now. Finally, they will use this new IP and braintrust that they have purchased and integrate it with something on their hardware. "Works best on intel" antivirus, or built in protection on smartphone chips. (i.e.: Remember, intel is the #1 seller of graphics hardware.) Also, there may be something up McAfee's sleave which we are unaware of that intel wants. That's always a possibility. It could be anything from an emerging technology to patents. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:27:50 -0700 Subject: RE: Will AMD buy NORTON next??? > Here's an interesting thought. Maybe now that Intel is buying McAfee, > they'll "optimize" it so that it "runs best" on Intel processors? That might > help sell a few more Intel procs. > > > > John-AldrichTile-Tools > > > > From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 12:18 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Will AMD buy NORTON next??? > > > > I never said it wasn't silly, I think it is, but my point was about > symantec. Symantec doesn't show any signs of being interested in hardware. > Intel's dallied with software in the past, at least. > > > > I can imagine a room full of Intel executives. We have piles of cash here, > and we're hitting a wall on delivering ever faster chips. We need to > broaden our exposure to new markets or find ways to vertically integrate > along our product line more, or find a way to enter into untapped markets, > especially in this wireless devices area. Let's buy a company. Someone > knows someone who knows someone who knows that McAfee might be interested in > being bought out. Voila, you have more money than sense meeting up with > craptastic decision making one oh one. > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Let's imagine Symantec purchases GFI that bought Vipre! > > > > > That's just silly. > > And paying nearly eight gigabucks for McAfee isn't? > > Of the two, I think I'd rather buy Symantec (although that's a > pretty poor choice). > > -- Ben > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
