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InternetNews January 5, 2005 Clint Boulton	Symantec, Veritas Leaders Tout Merger CEOs discuss the strengths of a company offering security and back-up software to enterprise customers.
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Clint Boulton	Symantec Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Veritas Security software maker Symantec is reportedly in talks to buy back-up software power Veritas Software in a blockbuster deal that, at $13 billion, would be one of the largest of its kind.
InternetNews June 24, 2005 Paul Shread	Veritas-Symantec Merger Gets Shareholder Nod Shareholders approved the merger of Veritas and Symantec, clearing the way for one of the largest software mergers ever.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 Rich Smith	Symantec Slammed Symantec plus Veritas equals minus $1.5 billion. When Microsoft makes goo-goo eyes at a market, it's the current suitors that get the shivers.
InternetNews March 16, 2005 Clint Boulton	EU Clears Symantec-Veritas Merger The European Union approves Symantec's $13.5 billion bid for Veritas; Symantec announces a threat assessment service.
InternetNews December 17, 2004 Clint Boulton	Symantec, Veritas Marriage Gets Mixed Reviews While vendors slugged it out over new customers over the last couple of months, two giants in their respective markets were hatching a plan to ambush the software market with a blockbuster merger.
InternetNews November 17, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Symantec CEO John Thompson to Step Down John W. Thompson, the CEO of antivirus and security software company Symantec, will retire from the post as of the end of the company's fiscal year, the company announced today.
InternetNews August 5, 2005 Drew Robb	Symantec-Veritas Deal Proves Timely Panned at first, the merger of security and storage giants turned out to be well-timed. The combined stock is now on the upswing.
The Motley Fool May 4, 2005 Rich Smith	Verily, Veritas Did Well Symantec's merger target spruces up. So let's take a quick look at Veritas' numbers, for the Symantec shareholders' sakes, if for no other reason.
InternetNews July 6, 2004 Clint Boulton	VERITAS to Miss Revenue Mark Tepid sales expected to tip earnings scale in wrong direction for software maker later this month.
BusinessWeek March 21, 2005 Sarah Lacy	Symantec's Thompson: "I Can't Wait To Compete..." As the CEO finalizes his deal for Veritas, war with Microsoft looms.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2005 Tom Taulli	Software Firms Struggle With Upload Despite lots of communication with investors, the Symantec-Veritas combo is still generating unease.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 Tom Taulli	Symantec Goes to M&A Rehab The security software giant says it will forgo mega-deals. Rather, the focus will be on smaller deals, such as its $970 million purchase of Altiris in April. The new strategy should be good news for shareholders.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2004 Tim Beyers	A $13 Billion Christmas Present? The New York Times reports Symantec is seeking to buy storage software maker Veritas. In thinking about how these companies may be reshaped, the alert investor may find more than one unexpected present for his portfolio.
InternetNews January 29, 2007 Clint Boulton	Symantec Extends IT Management With Latest Buy Symantec continues evolving its product lines for IT management.
InternetNews April 12, 2004 Clint Boulton	BEA Embraces Utility Computing from VERITAS BEA will add its application server to VERITAS' utility computing software in the deal to reduce customer total cost of ownership.
InternetNews July 28, 2005 Paul Shread	McAfee, Symantec Ride Security Wave McAfee reported pro forma earnings of 31 cents a share... Symantec reported earnings of 27 cents a share... The broader market rose on strong earnings reports... etc.
InternetNews August 31, 2004 Clint Boulton	Veritas to Buy KVS The storage and utility computing company offers $225 million in cash to boost its profile in the e-mail archiving arena.
InternetNews January 7, 2004 Clint Boulton	VERITAS to Acquire Application Virtualization Firm The storage firm will pay $59M for Ejasent, bolstering its utility computing portfolio to compete with IBM, HP and EMC.
InternetNews May 4, 2004 Clint Boulton	VERITAS Crystallizes Utility Computing Vision The firm's CEO advocates stoking the utility computing fires with storage and unveils new software offerings.
InternetNews January 9, 2004 Clint Boulton	Storage Players Play for Utility Computing Answering EMC's major bid for VMware, Veritas moves to acquire Ejasent for $59 million to firm up its utility computing portfolio, as players jostle to present their wares to customers.
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Symantec Releases New Storage Management Solution Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 addresses the proliferation of virtualization technologies by providing end-to-end visibility in both virtualized server and storage environments, analyzing end-to-end storage consumption and identifying storage that can be reclaimed.
InternetNews April 18, 2006 Clint Boulton	Symantec's $1B Tax Bill Security software giant Symantec said in a Securities and Exchange filing that it owes the government $1 billion in unpaid taxes, mostly relating to an audit of its purchase of Veritas Software.
The Motley Fool October 29, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Symantec Shoots for Two In advance of earnings, analysts expect sales to grow at computer security expert Symantec, and profits to grow even more.
The Motley Fool May 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Symantec Boots Up The security software maker reports fiscal fourth-quarter 2006 earnings today after close of market. Investors, take note.
InternetNews December 12, 2005 Clint Boulton	IDC: Backup, Replication Lifts Storage The storage software market tallied $2.1 billion in the quarter, buoyed by key markets.
InternetNews February 8, 2006 Clint Boulton	Symantec Configuration Requires Relicore Symantec aims to buy Relicore to improve the way it tracks changes to applications and servers.
InternetNews November 1, 2004 Clint Boulton	Veritas Retools Server Provisioning Adding a big piece to its utility computing jigsaw puzzle, Veritas Software rewrote its OpForce server provisioning software to include application discovery and configuration.
InternetNews January 19, 2004 Clint Boulton	VERITAS Adds Linux Support for Utility Computing The utility computing outfit adds SUSE and VMware to its list of storage software and server provisioning support for Linux.
InternetNews January 30, 2007 Clint Boulton	Symantec Facing Overlaps With Altiris And Rivals Symantec's $830 million purchase of IT management software maker Altiris is yet another message to rival Microsoft that it intends to be more than just a top security software maker.
InternetNews May 19, 2006 Clint Boulton	Symantec Sues Microsoft to Halt Vista Symantec claims Microsoft is improperly using its code in Vista.
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Clint Boulton	VERITAS to Orbit Solaris The company agrees to support Sun's operating system x86 architecture for Intel and AMD while it updates its i3 roadmap and announces new services.
InternetNews August 9, 2005 Paul Shread	Symantec Releases First Veritas Products Symantec unveils the first joint products since acquiring Veritas last month. The new offerings focus on e-mail security and archiving and Linux-based storage management.
The Motley Fool May 16, 2006 Rich Smith	Symantec Still Flat An earnings beat isn't all it's cracked up to be. Symantec is continuing to post ugly numbers, and may do so until it has fully digested Veritas. Investors, take note.
InternetNews August 18, 2004 Michael Singer	Veritas Reaches Out to China The systems software vendor unveils plans to extend its utility computing vision to its Asia/Pacific fans.
InternetNews February 9, 2004 Clint Boulton	Veritas: Buffed-up Back-up for SMB's The back-up and storage player refreshes key products for smaller businesses with features formerly built for major enterprises.
InternetNews December 13, 2005 Clint Boulton	Dell Data Protects With Symantec Touch The company will offer Symantec's backup software with its storage arrays to help customers protect their data.
InternetNews November 25, 2008 Judy Mottl	Symantec Trims Enterprise Vault Staff Symantec's cost-cutting move reflects grim economic reality as well as maturation in the product line, some say.
InternetNews July 15, 2004 Clint Boulton	Veritas Automates with Invio Buy Invio's software has already been rolled into VERITAS CommandCentral Service 4.0, which became generally available to the storage vendor's customers last week.
InternetNews February 23, 2004 Clint Boulton	Veritas in Storage Software Overhaul The software maker gives utility computing prominence in its revamped product mix.
InternetNews October 8, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Symantec's MessageLabs Buy Aims for the Clouds In a move to strengthen its position in Software-as-a-Service, security player Symantec has purchased online messaging and Web security provider MessageLabs for about $695 million in cash.
InternetNews September 27, 2005 Clint Boulton	Symantec Backup, But With a Veritas Twist Symantec shows off its data protection and security integration work since closing its Veritas purchase.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Symantec Sings Management at Symantec digs out its wallet and allocates $2 billion in authorizations for share buybacks.
The Motley Fool April 19, 2006 Tim Beyers	A Billion Reasons to Avoid Symantec? The antivirus maker has a taxing problem. For its part, Symantec says it isn't in error and plans to take the Feds to tax court, but it's not certain how much investors may lose if the IRS is right.
InternetNews December 23, 2003 Clint Boulton	EMC Taps Rival to Boost Database Performance Rivals to storage system company EMC look to advance their utility computing strategies, with Veritas creating a software extension that aims to boost database performance on EMC platforms.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Anders Bylund	Is Security the Next Cloud Computing Play? Symantec has a slow quarter, but looks to brighter days ahead.
InternetNews October 10, 2008 Richard Adhikari	MessageLabs Buy a Headache for Symantec? Some think competitive issues and potential integration problems will be a serious challenge, but Symantec brushes such concerns aside.
InternetNews February 15, 2005 Michael Singer	Symantec Battles Spyware, Bots and Microsoft CEO John Thompson dismisses Microsoft's security efforts as child's play - certainly not fit for large businesses.
InternetNews January 3, 2006 Clint Boulton	Symantec Sets Sights on IMlogic Security software maker Symantec is offering to acquire IMlogic, the top provider of enterprise instant messaging software.
InternetNews December 7, 2009	Symantec Provides Enterprise SSD Support Its Veritas subsidiary offers a variety of tools to help with SSD provisioning.