What products has Symantec bought and killed?
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A coworker and I were discussing all the products that went to shit after symantec bought them.
So far BackupExec, Ghost, and Sygate firewall come to mind. I know there are many more. Everything that company touches turns to sh**
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the original NORTON line of products
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All of them?
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It look like they don't devolop anything. They just buy companies out and completely destroy previously good products
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I used to love Sygate, used it until they screwed it over.
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Pretty much. Also Procomm
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@scottalanmiller said in What products has Symantec bought and killed?:
All of them?
It'd be difficult to dispute that, they certainly seem to have a talent for breaking things
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FWIW BackupExec used to be freaking awesome... a decade ago....
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Not that there is a need for it anymore but PCAnywhere
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@syko24 said in What products has Symantec bought and killed?:
Not that there is a need for it anymore but PCAnywhere
Does PCAnywhere still exist? I have not heard about that product in a dog's age (or more.)
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Norton Commander... where are you, buddy? Ghost? pcAnywhere? Dudes...
BTW, just found this: http://www.laplink.com/index.php/en/testlist/1311-laplink-offers-solution-to-users-affected-by-security-breach-of-pcanywhere
LapLink is also something we used... in the early 90's
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Norton Commander... it's been a while since I have heard that name!
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@scottalanmiller said in What products has Symantec bought and killed?:
Norton Commander... it's been a while since I have heard that name!
I do use mc (Midnight Commander) on *nix from time to time. Not often anymore, but it's still around. Total Commander for Windows has a cool mass file rename feature that comes in handy at times.
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Most recent thing like that that I have used is muCommander on Mac OSX.
