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Interview: Altiris' Greg Butterfield: Page 4 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

There are endpoint security technologies inside Symantec, like Sygate. And we had a hard time competing with Ghost for imaging.

The CMDB Federation Working Group, which includes BMC, IBM, HP and Microsoft, is working on a draft specification to make CMDBs more flexible by federating information from diverse sources. The last time I checked, neither Symantec nor Altiris was participating. Has that changed?

I would anticipate in the very near future we'll start participating in those kinds of forums.

Many of the companies you identified are partners of Altiris. Our overall technology strategy isn't to tell customers to standardize on Symantec. If someone is using a technology that works, we'll figure out how to integrate with it.

Altiris pulled out of our mobile device management review because it didn't feel its security components were up to snuff. Will Symantec contribute its forthcoming mobile security product toward the Altiris device-management suite?

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