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December seems to be the month for high-profile corporate takeovers in the IT world!
A couple of weeks back IBM sold its PC business.
Then last week Microsoft bought an anti-spyware company.
Now I’ve read that Symantec and Veritas are to merge in a $13.5bn deal.
I regularly recommend Veritas’ BackupExec suite of products to corporate clients because it is so well integrated with the Microsoft platform – indeed, the Backup utility for Windows (NTBackup) is actually a cut-down version of BackupExec. Let’s just hope that the new company will be as quick to embrace new Microsoft technologies as Veritas has been in the past.
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