Symantec to buy Powerquest

Wow. That was unexpected. Ghost & Drive Image from the same company? Thx for the post.

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symantec didnt make ghost in the 1st place... a new zealand based company called Binary Research did... and they sold it for several hundreds of dollars a copy... Symantec bought it from them thankfully.
 
You mean the same company that bought PCTools and Xtree?

(And then closed both of them.)

From a QDGS: (Quick & Dirty Google Search)

Central Point - Makers of Pctools
CP aquired Xtree first, then Symantec bought out CP.

Xtree clones have flourished however, like Ztree and UnixTree.
http://www.xtreefanpage.org/lowres/x20hist.htm


You may recall they also bought out Delrina in the mid-90s
(Winfax, Talkworks, Wincomm pro, Cyberjack)

And Quarterdeck (Cleansweep, Crashguard)
and probably one or two others that I don't recall.
(not counting the earlier purchase of the Peter Norton branded apps)


Interestingly, Powerquest was founded by Eric Ruff, the same guy that
created Q-DOS and Optune IIRC. I remember a past presentation where
he remarked on his desire to never sell out Powerquest like he had to
with Gazelle Systems (his old company). But I guess times change.
 
Crashguard....<think>.....did Symantec (maybe under the Norton name) ever release a version of Crashguard? I think I once ran that back in the bad old days of Win9x on a 486 <shudder>
 
I think "Crashguard" caused more crashes than it saved. It was part of Symantec's marketing strategy: "Look at how many crashes we protected you from".
 
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