Symantec & Veritas

Four of us from <a href="http://www.informationweek.com">InformationWeek</a> met with Symantec CEO John Thompson and Veritas CEO Gary Bloom this morning. What surprised me was how bullish both were about Linux.

Thomas Claburn, Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility

March 2, 2005

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Four of us from InformationWeek met with Symantec CEO John Thompson and Veritas CEO Gary Bloom this morning. What surprised me was how bullish both were about Linux."With Linux coming along, it almost guarantees the world will be more heterogenous [in terms of IT]," Bloom said.

"Given the cost of running Linux on Intel, more and more companies are going to move to Linux over time," Thompson said.

Is that foresight or the realization that the door may be closing on the Windows market, now that Microsoft has made its security plans known?

About the Author

Thomas Claburn

Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility

Thomas Claburn has been writing about business and technology since 1996, for publications such as New Architect, PC Computing, InformationWeek, Salon, Wired, and Ziff Davis Smart Business. Before that, he worked in film and television, having earned a not particularly useful master's degree in film production. He wrote the original treatment for 3DO's Killing Time, a short story that appeared in On Spec, and the screenplay for an independent film called The Hanged Man, which he would later direct. He's the author of a science fiction novel, Reflecting Fires, and a sadly neglected blog, Lot 49. His iPhone game, Blocfall, is available through the iTunes App Store. His wife is a talented jazz singer; he does not sing, which is for the best.

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