03-31-2020 , 05:39 PM
Quote: McAfee, like Symantec, has played an important role in the cybersecurity industry.
Its history is replete with pivots. First it was McAfee Associates, founded by John McAfee who by all reports was actually relatively sane back in 1989. Then it combined with Network General in 1997, after its 1993 IPO, and became Network Associates (NAI).
It continued to make acquisitions. Like Symantec the strategy of the early days of anti-virus companies was to establish a brand for desktop software and sell as many products as possible.
Symantec was “the yellow box,” McAfee was “the red box,” and when Webroot Software got into the game, they chose to be “the green box.”
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