Will Vista kill the security companies?
May 8th, 2006A CNET post says Vista will hit third party security software vendors. You have to look inward, and make some decisions:
- If you are a venture investor in Webroot, do you go for the IPO now, or assume Vista will actually get released in 2009?
- If your margin account hasn’t been used to pay off your credit cards (that is, after you tapped out your home equity line) do you short Symantec and McAfee?
- If you are Checkpoint, do you hire John Ashcroft to help you get those acquisitions done before it’s too late?
- If you run OS X or Linux, do you even care?
More suggestions from the audience are much appreciated.
***UPDATE***
A timely study says security vendors can rest easy.
John Thompson of Symantec doesn’t sound worried - in fact he sounds somewhat incredulous.
Posted in Spamroll on Monday, May 8th, 2006 at 7:21 am
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May 8th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Don’t believe everything that you read. I have some thoughts on Yankee’s projections.
I’d also add the question: Do you do nothing, waiting for Vista, and let a hundred more laptops with personal information get stolen? Or maybe: Do I continue to clean up the security mess of Windows XP because my users are too stupid to enter in a password when they want to install new software?
May 9th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Suggestions? Sure, fight Microsoft back. Adopt BSD and/or Linux and promote it. It’s the same game SAP and Oracle play back and forth…. should work for security software peddlers against microsloth.