April 9, 2007 4:27 PM PDT

Symantec completes Altiris buy

Related Stories

Symantec buys risk-management start-up

March 8, 2007

Symantec to acquire Altiris

January 29, 2007

Symantec gets data center software

February 7, 2006

Symantec on Monday said that it has completed the takeover of IT management software company Altiris. The acquisition was announced on January 29 and valued at the time at $830 million.

Altiris, based in Lindon, Utah, develops software to manage and configure corporate assets, such as laptops, mobile devices and servers. Symantec expects the addition of Altiris to create a more comprehensive approach to better manage and enforce security policies at the end point; identify and protect against threats; and repair and service assets.

See more CNET content tagged:
Altiris Inc., management software company, IT administration, Symantec Corp., acquisition

3 comments

Join the conversation!
Add your comment (Log in or register)
...
...and with the acquisition complete, Altiris goes from "useful" to "useless" in no time flat.

I wonder how long it will take them to totally trash an otherwise solid product?
Posted by JumpinJ (1 comment )
Reply Link Flag
Another Great Product EOL
My experience with Symantec is that they acquire very good products and destroy them. The most recent victim was Backup Exec. The new enterprise version is absolute garbage. They didn't really trash Ghost, they just really didn't do anything with it to compete. Since Ghost was obsolete, they bought PowerQuest's Drive Image and incorporated the features into the Ghost product line- and it has stagnated. Now that they allowed the market leading product to stagnate, and then added PowerQuest's products to the mix of stagnating products, it only makes sense to stop Altiris from innovating as well.

Too bad . . .

Dwayne
Posted by Dwayne.Alton (20 comments )
Reply Link Flag
That's too bad
Ah, Altris actually has (or... had) a pretty good offering. At symantec it will more than likely disappear into the morass.
Posted by The Harper (41 comments )
Reply Link Flag
 

Join the conversation

Add your comment

The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. Click here to review our Terms of Use.

Inside CNET News

1-2 of 12

Scroll Left Scroll Right

RSS Feeds

Add headlines from CNET News to your homepage or feedreader.

Markets

Market news, charts, SEC filings, and more

Related quotes

Symantec (0.84%) 0.15 17.93
Dow Jones Industrials (0.57%) 72.81 12,874.04
S&P 500 (0.68%) 9.13 1,351.77
NASDAQ (0.95%) 27.51 2,931.39
CNET TECH (0.84%) 17.13 2,049.14
  Symbol Lookup