Intel Buy McAfee

Locky said:
Bad move by Intel there, I can only see them losing money on this.
McAfee is CRAP.
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McAfee still is very profitable. There very popular in the Business world as there products are very good. I do feel there home user products are below par.

Intel I think have made a great move. Intel have the money and resources to put into McAfee back to the company it was 5 - 6 years ago.
 
Quite obvious the difference between those who have a clue and those who dont in this thread!

Burnsy has it spot on folks. Just because a bunch of nerds use NOD32 and moisten their pants over it and declare that McAfee = da suxx0rz doesnt mean Intel have wasted their money and are doomed to fail.

McAfee are enormous in the corporate world and you can bet most of intels profits come from corporate desktop machines.
 
We have at work McAfee Enterprise, it doesn't detect everything and it doesn't update on some of the computers but we use it and it doesn't look we are going to change it to anything else. I bet that most companies use McAfee or Norton.

I would never use it on my home computer though.
 
matthab said:
Intel have the money and resources to put into McAfee back to the company it was 5 - 6 years ago.
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Do they, though? Integrating a large software company into a large hardware company is very, very tricky. Selling hardware and selling software is quite different and management structures and styles are often very different too.
 
apatia77 said:
We have at work McAfee Enterprise, it doesn't detect everything and it doesn't update on some of the computers but we use it and it doesn't look we are going to change it to anything else. I bet that most companies use McAfee or Norton.

I would never use it on my home computer though.
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Do many companies use Norton? Norton is a consumer brand.
 
AmTechFox said:
See now this is why OSX is far superior to Windows, it doesn't let companies make millions/billions off an OS full of holes for viruses/adawares etc.

Remember kids, once you go MAC you never go back. Silly programs like an Anti Virus or Ad-aware are not needed on OSX. ;):D




On a serious note, I'd use AVG in personal/business any day over McCrappy but if its got the hold over corporate then Intel could go somewhere with it, I hope.
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EDIT2: Will be back with ninja editing skills soon, assuming the word at the end was what Basher was talking about


Edit: Forgot to actually go on-topic, so I hope Intel are able to improve McAfee. Having used McAfee in a non-commercial environment I absolutely hate it. Judging from posts here it performs better in a commercial environment.
 
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Basher said:
Do they, though? Integrating a large software company into a large hardware company is very, very tricky. Selling hardware and selling software is quite different and management structures and styles are often very different too.
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Interesting. How many corporate mergers have you overseen?

What are the "very very tricky" bits compared to the other bits.
 
TangoSixteen said:
Interesting. How many corporate mergers have you overseen?

What are the "very very tricky" bits compared to the other bits.
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About 7 or 8 personally and a good friend of mine works in M&A for KPMG - so many more indirectly. The tricky bits tend to be around incentivisation, cohesion of productisation/positioning and ultimately product integration - i.e. ultimately making it appear as one solution rather than a joint value proposition (which it could be without the acquisition).
 
Basher said:
Do they, though? Integrating a large software company into a large hardware company is very, very tricky. Selling hardware and selling software is quite different and management structures and styles are often very different too.
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From what ive seen of this kind of thing is that Intel will keep McAfee going the way it is and slowly make changes. Management changes, marketing restructuring ( I can see "McAfee by Intel" coming) all the changes big organisations like to do.

Remeber Intel has done software before so this isnt unchartered territory. Theyve written drivers/software tools etc. I think Intel is more than capable of pulling this off.
 
We have at work McAfee Enterprise, it doesn't detect everything and it doesn't update on some of the computers but we use it and it doesn't look we are going to change it to anything else. I bet that most companies use McAfee or Norton.

I would never use it on my home computer though.
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Exactly the same at where i work, they just spent £2800 on another years subscription, strange thing is yesterday i had to use malware bytes to remove a virus from a PC, mcafee is useless, it is actually worse than useless, in that the on access protection slows the pc down tremendously.

The software needs to be rewritten from the ground up.

I tried convincing them that mcafee or traditional virus scanning is not effective. But they won't listen.
 
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