Symantec and Veritas to Merge
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Symantec (SYMC:Nasdaq - news - research) Thursday said it will acquire rival software company Veritas Software (VRTS:Nasdaq - news - research)in an all-stock deal.
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Updated from 12:51 pm ESTWithin hours of the announcement that antivirus maker Symantec (SYMC:Nasdaq) and software storage vendor Veritas (VRTS:Nasdaq) would merge, skeptical investors shaved about a billion dollars off the value of the all-stock deal.
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Symantec Corp., security software company famous for its Norton anti-virus software, has signed an agreement to buy Veritas Software Corp.
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Symantec Corp.&#39;s reported interest in acquiring Veritas Software Corp. for more than $13 billion would represent the computer security giant&#39;s biggest step yet beyond its core
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Precise set free for a fee Five years and thousands of broken dreams ago, Veritas ate application performance management software maker Precise for $609m. And now Symantec is offloading the pricey baggage.â¦
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Shares of Veritas Software (VRTS) surged 9% Tuesday on reports that computer-security giant Symantec (SYMC) is in talks to buy the maker of data-storage and backup
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Strengthining its utility computing software, Veritas Software on Monday released an upgrade to its server provisioning product called OpForce.
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The Symantec Corp, a leader in security software and one of Silicon Valley&#39;s oldest companies, announced early Thursday that it would acquire Veritas Software, a maker of data storage programs, to create the world&#39;s fourth-largest software company.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Symantec Corp. SYMC.O,  a maker of security software, on Thursday said it would buy  storage software maker Veritas Software Corp. VRTS.O for  $13.5 billion, creating the world's fourth-largest software  company.
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Veritas Software Corp. , the leading storage software provider, said on Tuesday it agreed to acquire email backup company KVault Software Ltd. for &#36;225 million in cash.
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Symantec&#39;s planned acquisition of Veritas Software is already changing the security game, even though the deal remained unconfirmed by either party as of late Wednesday afternoon.
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Veritas Software on Monday will announce a new version of its OpForce provisioning software designed to make it easier for administrators to install and manage applications, as well as operating systems, on servers.
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Veritas CEO Gary Bloom unveiled a new version of the company's biggest selling storage platform for small to medium-size businesses and talked about the planned merger with Symantec.
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Symantec Corp. plans to integrate two of its compliance assessment products to make it easier for IT administrators to manage the software, a company executive said Thursday.
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Symantec moved a step closer to joining the ranks of the leading broad-based corporate software sellers yesterday as it announced a $12.5bn all-stock agreement to buy storage and data back-up company Veritas.
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Norton Antivirus software maker Symantec merges with Veritas Software in an all-shares deal valued at more than $13bn.
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Computer security giant Symantec has agreed to buy storage and backup program maker Veritas Software to create the world's fourth largest software company. The all-stock acquisition was initially valued at &#36;13.5 billion, but the price quickly plummeted after investors weighed in on the merger.