Symantec buying Sygate?

[PrntRhd]

Symantec Corporation announced it is buying Sygate Technologies.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BF4CA0890%2D78C2%2D4FEF%2D9F68%2DBD71F7DDEF DF%7D

[Budfred]

Well, so much for that free option...

[pop pop]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooo :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1848935,00.asp

Symantec will begin reselling Sygate technology immediately after the deal

But challenges remain.

Symantec will need to figure out what to do with Sygate's firewall technology.

Symantec's existing firewall, which it acquired from AtGuard in 1999, is not considered "best of breed." Symantec could benefit from Sygate's experienced firewall engineers and from the addition of connection-specific firewall policy features from Sygate's firewall products, Pescatore said.

However, disentangling Symantec's current firewall from the anti-virus and anti-spyware features that it has been bundled with will be a challenge, he said.

[ErnieK]

Well all good things must come to an end. Yet again Symantec will mess with and destroy a good product (IMO). Like a lot of companies they cannot make a good product so buy one and then ruin it by trying to change it.

[deddard]

can't they leave anything alone?
It's not as if it is going to be much use after they've 'symantecised' it. (the new version of Ghost is a case in point)
:(