full-disclosure - Microsoft to buy Sybari AV company

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From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
Subject: Microsoft to buy Sybari AV company

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 07:27:54PM -0500, Danny wrote:
> Further, if Microsoft thinks acquisitions will solve all of their
> problems, why don't they acquire a company with programmers that have
> some clue about security and it's place in software that is plugged
> into a network.

imho:
1. m$ have more problems than money
2. there are some things that money and fud can't buy
(though this sounds like from a cheap pink romantic love story novel, 
there is some truth in it)

-- 
"We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so
fast....It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number
- before our doom comes."
    * Source: Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time, Daniel Gross
(1997), ISBN 0471196533
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates