Symantec buys Messagelabs

Mikey · 8 Oct 2008 at 14:01

Bit of a surprise purchase..

http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20081008_02

Mikey · 8 Oct 2008 at 14:26

bigredshark said:
A little surprising actually, symantec are getting big now, this on top of the Veritas aquisition a while back...

and Altiris etc etc.

Yup certainly a major player. They fixed Backup Exec when they took over Veritas

Mikey · 8 Oct 2008 at 15:10

10 was crap, agreed 10d was the first improved product. I thought that was the version that had the Symantec input. I know the branding changed etc.

Mikey · 8 Oct 2008 at 20:07

Baz said:
Great, we use Messagelabs, and I have tried to stay away from Symantec except for Backup Exec....

I hope they don't screw it up, Messagelabs are very good at what they do.

Postini I find very good and cheap. Part of Google now.