Symantec completes Altiris buy

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.

[JumpinJ]

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...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?

[Dwayne.Alton]

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

[The Harper]

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.