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Old May 9th, 2007 Top | #1
 
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Default Symantec acquires Altiris
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I know I'm a little late with this news but it makes me very sad. I liked Altiris as a company and was enjoying playing around with their virtualization tools.
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Why are you sad, they'll probably just make it better, look at Sygate....
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Ooooh look! Another product to be dragged through the dirt


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Originally Posted by dreamliner77 View Post
I know I'm a little late with this news but it makes me very sad.
It could be worse, M$ might have bought them.

(After 5 years I'm still bitter about how M$ trashed the entire Mech War franchise. )
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Why are you sad, they'll probably just make it better, look at Sygate....
wow that was great
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(After 5 years I'm still bitter about how M$ trashed the entire Mech War franchise. )
Word!!!! they let something great languish.
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