Talk:Symantec

What do you want to discuss?

Hey, User:UnitedStatesian, what did you want to discuss? It's odd having a disambiguation page to distinguish between two different things when it's actually one thing, at least as I see it. Largoplazo (talk) 04:04, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not so: as of this week when the sale closed, if you go to https://www.symantec.com you wind up on a Broadcom Inc. page; NortonLifeLock no longer owns the Symantec name or brand, or any of the enterprise products that were sold to Broadcom Inc. UnitedStatesian (talk) 04:09, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I had to read through it several times but now I get it. Largoplazo (talk) 05:06, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of SecurityFocus into Symantec

Stub unlikey to be further developed as an independent article MB 18:52, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support merge into NortonLifeLock – not into Symantec, which is a DAB page. No sign of independent notability for SecurityFocus, I doubt it would survive WP:AFD. Narky Blert (talk) 12:54, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

M&A

The Broadcom article says:

Broadcom purchased this business from NortonLifeLock (formerly known as Symantec) in 2019.

Clicking on NortonLifeLock redirects to Gen Digital. So I am confused as to who owned what business when, and who bought it from who. None of articles are clear on history unless I am missing something. User:Danbloch. -- GreenC 22:44, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's kind of a mess.

As I understand it Symantec split in the late 2010s. Broadcom acquired part of it, including the Symantec name (http://symantec.com is now a redirect to broadcom.com). The remainder changed its name to NortonlifeLock and subsequently merged with Avast to become Gen Digital, so both claims in the DAB are correct, with the possible exception of the date.

This ignores Veritas (which I think is fine), which merged with and later demerged from Symantec prior to that.

The sentence in the Broadcom article is misleading, since I'm pretty sure it was Symantec at the time, not NortonLifeLock. I'm also not sure the dates are right. Unfortunately the citation for the claim seems to be useless. Dan Bloch (talk) 23:39, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If anybody still cares, I found a citation and clarified the statement in the Broadcom article. Dan Bloch (talk) 17:00, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I made some further clarifications. It's a little repetitive, but I think required because it is easy to conflate the corporation vs the product, which has the same name, and the word "acquisition" that could be applicable to both corporation and product. So I wanted to be more specific so it's clear there is difference between the product and corporation. -- GreenC 17:27, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]