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Message-ID: <20040818110800.85460.qmail@web51504.mail.yahoo.com> 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?
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