SRL Archive - The Bashing Club / BBQ Pit

Intel, the semiconductor microchip giant, has announced a $7.7bn (£4.9bn) deal to buy antivirus software group McAfee.
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Bad move Intel…

Kaspersky FTW! :D

Hopefully Intel can fix it up.

McAfee is just a bunch of bloatware nowadays, it would be great if they could fix it up.

I say if they create life-long licenses for the price of their current yearly licenses, they'd make more sales, and if they re-wrote their server software to hog less resources, they could be fine.

Yea, their enterprise versions are extremely outdated and RAM-draining, plus they're losing tons of market share to competitors. McAfee really needs to get it's act together. There's rumors that Intel is consiering buying them because they're looking to make security a hardware concern instead of a software concern. I don't really see how purchasing McAfee would help with that, or how they're going to manage antimalware products once they're hardware-based though. It just seems odd to me, Intel has a near monopoly on the processor market anyway. Why diversify into other industries…

From: -Elite Hacker-
Yea, their enterprise versions are extremely outdated and RAM-draining, plus they're losing tons of market share to competitors. McAfee really needs to get it's act together. There's rumors that Intel is consiering buying them because they're looking to make security a hardware concern instead of a software concern. I don't really see how purchasing McAfee would help with that, or how they're going to manage antimalware products once they're hardware-based though. It just seems odd to me, Intel has a near monopoly on the processor market anyway. Why diversify into other industries…

Intel already did buy them :P

Strange, their stock is at it's 52-week low

From: putnam11
Intel already did buy them :P

Strange, their stock is at it's 52-week low

Heh, probably because many people think it was a bad idea. Lots of sell-off.