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constitutionftwDec 22, 2010
Abolish the FTC!
kabifffDec 22, 2010
Abolish people who use Windows backgrounds as their avatars!
constitutionftwDec 22, 2010
says calvin
hipmanDec 23, 2010
why?.
atomic1fireDec 23, 2010
This deal is harmless,
McAfee's security report shows all it's competitors,
It's not going to wipeout microsoft, Google, or any other company with a cashflow that doesn't directly deal with security.
Google is getting people away from antiviruses, when they use things like chrome OS.
Microsoft has Microsoft Security Essentials, and Mcafee can't suddenly come up with a office product, or a OS to compete with Microsoft at it's own game.
More companies are doing more with security, so Mcafee needs an alternate cashflow to compete, or suddenly become awesome at security, while giving people products that grow with the times.
Intel could help them probably do both.
If anything goes horribly wrong, it could always end up like aol-times warner.
irrelevant.
mtnxfreeriderDec 23, 2010
Maybe if McAfeee didnt suck so bad and could actually catch a trojan antivirus program before it installs and disables McAfee, there would be a market for it.
teach6001Dec 22, 2010
We will see progress......good for both McAffe Inc. & Intel.
bionicvskungfuDec 22, 2010
Intel needing McAfee is like God needing a starship.
350zedDec 23, 2010
Your Invisible Friend has a teleporter?
addiktionDec 23, 2010
Soon we will see a handful of giant technology corporations own just about everything we use on a regular basis.
hipmanDec 23, 2010
Right....and when you want a new pc, graphics or processor hardware what are your choices?.
atomic1fireDec 23, 2010
that's always been the case,
A company known for cleaning products and drugs owns pringles (the snack food)
I think it's johnson and johnson or whatever, But don't qoute me on that.
Samsung is huge, it owns a lot of subsidiaries in South Korea, including one for life insurance.
Sony is pretty big in a few areas, I think they still own a production company.
I actually welcome the buy out,
It's not like they can wipe out the competition.
They still have to deal with cloud computing (someone else does the security for you), Microsoft (security essentials), Norton, and all the free antivirus and malware solutions.
lelandt50Dec 23, 2010
Intel put effort into acquiring McAfee? I'm sorry, but their AV software is awful. Wake up, go after Kaspersky!
atomic1fireDec 23, 2010
This isn't just about consumer software, most security companies have major security solutions of some kind.
this is about intel trying to get a piece of the security market pie.
If it can convince business that they need it's chips to remain secure, That will fund into the rest of intels sales. and they will have a vendor (mcafee) to back them.
I already did some minor research.
The sale was announced in august, and the price tag was 7.68 billion or so, Not bad for a awful AV software company.
norman619Dec 23, 2010
What major security application does McAfee have? I can't think of one.
darkshroudDec 23, 2010
McAfee has a complete security suit for home users and corporate. Many businesses, schools & hospitals use their software. They also have hardware gateways to integrate into the software ecosystem over the network.
Try imagining it this way, a free & pro software suit that works with instruction sets directly in the CPU or mobo chip set. Kind of like Nvidia's Nforce software.
Intel could also port this over to OSX & portable devices like cell phones. There is a lot of money to be made in this market.
norman619Dec 23, 2010
That's not major. Their "business" solution is pretty pathetic. every company I have worked with tried them out and we passed them over for much better products.
As for OSX, Apple users are convinced they have no real need of an anti-virus or any other security application. I don't see much money to be made there. I suspect Intel will not bother to port anything over to OSX for the same reason most other major software vendors don't. Not a big enough market share to make a good return on their investment. It costs lots of money to rewrite code from the ground up which is what they would likely have to do.
hipmanDec 23, 2010
Never heard of it.Probably explains why they didn't.
Closed AccountDec 23, 2010
lol in other news intel pays 7 billion dollars to get hemorrhoids
darkshroudDec 23, 2010
McAfee makes 2 billion a year in profit. Who wouldn't mind having hemorrhoids that did that?
ElectricPrismDec 23, 2010
McAfee... You mean that anti-virus brand I wouldn't use even if it was free?
Lets hope Intel Re-Brands it and builds it from the ground up (Their name reminds me of Mandriva - ick.). Norton always gave me a bad taste when it raped every computers memory usage to death it came in contact with. Even if you had 2-4GB Ram, the machine would practically take twice as long to do simple things.
IMO The best antivirus is Firefox / Chrome and reinstalling Windows every couple months.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
jillthorntonDec 23, 2010
This money would be better spent on heroin overdose.