Symantec to Acquire PowerQuest

[Kwitko]

CUPERTINO, Calif. - Sept. 23, 2003 - Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire PowerQuest CorpCorporation. The acquisition is intended to combines market-leading deployment, imaging, provisioning, storage management, and disaster recovery technologies technologies into a new enterprise solution for managing, protecting and recovering servers, workstations, laptops and handhelds, called Active State Management.for a more comprehensive systemPC active state management solution. The acquisition, conditioned upon customary regulatory approvals and PowerQuest shareholder approval, is expected to close by the end of 2003.

http://www.symantec.com/press/2003/n030923.html

[Thrax]

Apparently Symantec wants Powerquest's partition magic technology for itself!

[gtghm]

That kinda blows... Ghost seems to be ok but I like DI 2002 beter than ghost... Other than the AV the rest is crap... norton utilities can really screw up a computer.... It is the virus...