What do you expect from this company ever since they embarked a few years ago to start acquiring or merging with any company, be they innovative or just trash. Symantec have only achieved splurging their profits and slowing their growth(distant by-gone era.) These acquisition sprees have proven that they were simply done to justify the titles and/or the selfish vested interests and egotistical glory of management, and not in the interest of the employees nor the investors.

Symantec then proceeds to squeeze the life out of each one of the acquired companies, with the mentality of wiping or cleaning them out, just like a virus! One such great innovative company and former leader was Veritas, whom were then the leaders and known as the "Storage Stars", until Symantec came along of course. Symantec managed to simply turn them into some sort of "Security Storage" also-ran. Examples are products such as Backup Exec, Netbackup, Veritas Cluster Server.

Somehow, Symantec don't realize(at their own peril), that there are many other more innovative companies covering the same product space and unfortunately they cannot acquire them all. These other companies and competitors happen to have product offerings that actually work! Also, they can provide very reasonable support offerings, turnarounds and a lot less aggravation than Symantec can. These competitors are therefore much better value, hence offer greater rewards for investors, than what a now "Security-Snitching Symantec" can possibly have to offer, as it is clear that they are gradually fading and showing signs of being a mediocre and nasty arrogant conglomerate.

In dealing with Symantec over the past few years, the main conclusion or best guess that I can make, is that the company is only good at "stitching-up" the most valuable resource that a Tech company can have, which is it's employees. Way too many employees have been shown the now famous Symantec revolving door. One employee mentioned to me that they(Symantec), are sleuthy or real good and quick at squashing anyone whom identifies issues with procedures\policies, or is a free thinker or maybe outspoken(disruptive). Simply put, Symantec treats it employees like s**t.

Thereby, we have a Software Tech company that does not encourage innovation and/or creativity from within, but instead encourages paranoia, snooping and snitching in order to "stitch-up" and squash talented people to oblivion. Symantecs' only answer is to to simply keep cutting costs(mainly human), keep acquiring and squashing innovation\creativity. Everything else is judged internally by Symantec as being at odds with company values, and anyone that dares challenge this notion is just way too disruptive, and must join the unemployment queues. Sadly via than none other but the Symantec revolving door.