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<blockquote data-quote="XLR8R" data-source="post: 863774" data-attributes="member: 85385">Because, they are a much smaller company with limited resources now, operating mostly in consumer space where Windows Defender is already a &quot;good enough&quot; and free product. There is a growing concern that you need to have financial resources to be very good, or else you won&#039;t survive as a pure play consumer focused product developer. Norton is going public, because it has plans separate from Symantec, and because it is laying grounds and getting financial support for a future push into SMB - without any of legacy baggage of Symantec. In broad future terms, the code base of Norton and Symantec will become increasingly different, the engines will diverge at one point, leaving possibly only the cloud as a shared platform by both products.However, if Norton will not execute fast enough, it will fail fast. I even predict they may end up transitioning to an SDK engine based product with certain own technologies (probably a dual-engine solution like G-Data).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="XLR8R, post: 863774, member: 85385"] Because, they are a much smaller company with limited resources now, operating mostly in consumer space where Windows Defender is already a "good enough" and free product. There is a growing concern that you need to have financial resources to be very good, or else you won't survive as a pure play consumer focused product developer. Norton is going public, because it has plans separate from Symantec, and because it is laying grounds and getting financial support for a future push into SMB - without any of legacy baggage of Symantec. In broad future terms, the code base of Norton and Symantec will become increasingly different, the engines will diverge at one point, leaving possibly only the cloud as a shared platform by both products. However, if Norton will not execute fast enough, it will fail fast. I even predict they may end up transitioning to an SDK engine based product with certain own technologies (probably a dual-engine solution like G-Data). [/QUOTE]

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