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Interview: Altiris' Greg Butterfield: Page 3 of 5

GREG BUTTERFIELD Symantec has completed its acquisition of Altiris, of which you were CEO. What's the corporate structure and your role? Altiris will be a separate business unit with its own P&L [profit and loss]. I report directly to...
April 27, 2007

Symantec's data center management business declined 8 percent from Q3 '06 to Q3 '07. Might that be a drag on you?

I view it as an opportunity. We'll have more technology and resources going forward by being part of the fourth largest independent software company in the world.

What will Symantec and Altiris focus on integrating?

In the data center and our CMDB (configuration management database), one core area is application-dependency mapping. A company we were looking at several years ago was Relicore. That's now part of Symantec, so that's one core technology we'll look to.

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