This week Symantec ran its "Vision" conference in The Hague, the European centre of freedom, security and justice, as its executives were keen to point out. So what is Symantec's vision, does it bear scrutiny, is it delivering on it and was The Hague a good backdrop? Symantec has grown to be one the world's largest security software companies through serial acquisition, 40 companies or so since chief executive John Thompson took the helm 10 years ago. The vision that drives Symantec today was in fact born in 2004 when it made its biggest acquisition to date, the storage software giant Veritas. This doubled the size of Symantec and turned it into a major player in the enterprise software market. At the time many were cynical about the wisdom of combining security and storage specialists, but Symantec claimed it made absolute...
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