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Symantec Buys Brightmail

Symantec Buys Brightmail

KingFish 20 May, 2004 at 2:46pm ET Article published in Tech

Utility software vendor Symantec has announced it is acquiring antispam vendor Brightmail in a deal worth about $370 million in cash.

In an announcement made Wednesday after the financial markets closed, Cupertino, California-based Symantec said it is buying San Francisco-based Brightmail. Symantec says the deal will complement its existing gateway security products in the fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail.

Source: PCWorld

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  1. Straight_Man
    20 May 2004 ~ 4:08pm Straight_Man It will indeed complement what Symantec offers. Brightmail now has very good dynamicly teachable antispam and can hook to Symantec's AV also. Comcast uses that email software for filtering and control of email pathings and it is hooked to AV.

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