Blue Coat to be Acquired by Symantec for $4.65BN

Michael Trotter-Lawson
Jun 13, 2016
1 min read

This is an interesting move by Symantec and Bluecoat. Based on the article, it appears Bluecoat will be taking the lead from a boardroom perspective, which is probably a very good thing. We continue as an industry toward a world of 3 or 4 big players gobbling up all the good ideas and battling it out for IT security supremacy.

#Bluecoat #merger #Symantec

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