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* McAfee snaps up Secure Computing

ckensek

Craig Kensek 

Good acquisition by McAfee. Secure Computing has great technology. Adds some credence to the "best innovations are by smaller organizations" argument. This strengthens and broadens MFE's product portfolio while giving them more bragging rights about having products in the leader's quadrants of Gartner's Magic Quadrants.

Anonymous Coward

Craig Kensek ... of McAfee 

Jobs Halo

Well now Craig, you would say that, given that you're a McAfee marketing drone ...

http://www.mcafee.com/sg/about/contact/pr_contacts.html

Bruce

Ummmmm 

Alert

Will be interesting to see the distribution fallout from this one. McAfee have 5 distributors and SecureComputing have only just recently dropped Bell (one of McAfee's distributors) in favour of a sole distribution contract with Sphinx. Sphinx must be pretty miffed. I wonder what the resellers think?

Stone Fox

Excellent! 

Happy

Now at least one component of their utterly atrocious shite might actually work worth a piss.

Douglas Terborg

Well, now I know what not to buy... 

Flame

McAfee will likely kill Secure Computing in the same way they continue to commit slow suicide themselves. They'll water down the product, and milk it by scare-tactic advertising, and setting deep, hard-to-remove hooks in the customers they do gain.

Smart IT departments can find better alternatives to any product McAfee offers, and probably for a lesser price.

Gordon Fecyk

How am I supposed to use Snapgear stuff now?! 

Coat

First Snapgear was bought out by Cyberguard, then they by Secure Computing, and now they by McAfee?!

What next? The phasing out of one of the most useful and successful product lines I've seen? I mean, if I use Linux anywhere, it's in these little boxes.

Mine's the one with the Sonicwall rep's business card inside

Anonymous Coward

Distributor "fallout" 

IQ Sys is also a Disti for Secure Computing...

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