full-disclosure - Foundstone's Future as Part of McAfee

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From: keydet89 at yahoo.com (Harlan Carvey)
Subject: Foundstone's Future as Part of McAfee

> To answer your question...YES I was kidding!
> I did post it to invite speculation!

But why?  Speculation is a complete waste of time.

> The Truth is, the mergers within the security space
> are getting interesting.
> First Watchbot buys Sanctum.
> Now McAfee finally bought Foundstone (Rumored since
> Feb.)

How is this interesting?  The security space has been
seen a fertile ground for mergers since the days of
NAI.  Unfortunately, few have been able to do it
right.  NAI bought the Ballista product years ago, and
kept the company's founder/owner, Art Wong, but made
no stipulations to retain the programmers.  Veridian
bought several companies, and spun the commercial
consulting arm of Trident Data Systems off into
something they called "Veritect"...all that money
given to a name-branding organization and the best
they could do is make everyone think that this new
organization was part of Verisign.

In a nutshell, there have been few examples of how a
merger or buy-out has resulted in a superior product
or offering *after* the merger.

One would think that it would be perhaps more
interesting, since you want to speculate, to come up
with reasons why some of the really popular names in
the industry were no longer part of FoundStone when
they were bought.

> What's next? Symantec buys @Stake and ISS buys
> SPIDynamics?

What if they did?