Re: symantec to buy pc tools

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:48:04 -0400
From:                   Alex Eckelberry <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>

> http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20080818_02

I've got that deju vu feeling again.

Once upon a time, in a land where computer viruses had only started to become a 
problem, there were many, many antivirus companies.  Possibly more AV 
companies than there were viruses.  One company was called Symantec.  Another 
company was called Central Point.  One of Central Point's products was 
something called PC Tools, and it made Central Point fairly wealthy.  Lo and 
behold, Central Point and Symantec wanted to be even *more* wealthy, so they 
started buying competing companies, so there wouldn't *be* as many competing 
companies.  As I recall, Symantec gobbled up about 18, and Central Point 12, in 
the space of about a year.

Then Symantec bought Central Point.

But Symantec was still, at the time, selling Norton Utilities, so I suppose they 
decided to sell PC Tools to someone.

And now they've bought it back.

(I will *never* understand business ...)

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