#SYMANTEC ENDPOINT PROTECTION LICENSE RENEWAL SOFTWARE#

#SYMANTEC ENDPOINT PROTECTION LICENSE RENEWAL SOFTWARE#

Infrastructure software solutions means you're sitting at the nodes for communication. is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions'. According to Wikipedia, Broadcom is a company that is active in many areas of communication.Ĭurrently, the company's website fails with 'Bad Gateway', but the compoany advertises as ' Broadcom Inc. Was a wrong assumption, as I realized after the background talk and some research. Therefore, I assumed a complete failure above and asked whether the purchase would be worthwhile for Broadcom. I also did not understand the purpose of Broadcom's acquisition of Symantec. If the numbers I 'found' are correct, the Symantec staff in Germany has been reduced from 110 to 20 people. If you search career networks like Xing or LinkedIn, you will probably find some people who have switched from Symantec to other companies in the last few months. After a bit of research, some things are getting more clear to me.

Does the purchase pay off for Broadcom under these circumstances? Actually, Symantec customers can only flee under these circumstances, or how do you see it? Ask about the Sense an take your ConclusionsĪddenum: After publishing my German blog post and another article within German IT magazine heise, I had an interesting background talk. So a complete failure – in my opinion, caused by the Broadcom management. And because of the forum redirection, the Symantec discussion posts at Broadcom have probably disappeared. So this is exactly the topic I mentioned above and discussed in the comments on the blog. sales person I know where I'm spending my next few days… wink wink, nod nod. If I'm an ESET/Malwarebytes/Kaspersky/etc.

Was it really that f***ing hard to leave the domain intact? /RtavKkqk9yīut when I read the second tweet from Catalin Cimpanu, I got the right puzzle pieces together and see the whole image:īunch of people are complaining on Reddit r/symantec about being unable to extend licenses or buy new ones Thanks Broadcom for breaking all the links for past Symantec reports Apologies for any McClellan Platform ManagerĬatalin Cimpanu has just pointed this out on Twitter – although I didn't immediately understand it. Based on permission changes, updates and overnight indexing, please expect Website slowdowns. Over the weekend, we migrated all users and content from the Symantec Connect Community into the Broadcom Community. You will be redirected on such linkt to the text page of Broadcom with the following content: But the link is broken because Broadcom redirects its own forums and all links break. There is also this comment in my German blog that refers to a Symantec forum discussion. This is confirmed by the two sources above for Switzerland and Germany. In combination with the reader's comment above, a conclusive picture emerges: Broadcom's systems for managing these licenses simply cannot do this – licenses probably cannot be renewed when they expire, new licenses cannot be purchased. Quote from the article:Ī reseller of Symantec complains about huge problems with license purchase and license renewal In addition, resellers are no longer be able to purchase new licenses for Symantec products since the takeover. The short version: During the company takeover, Symantec Switzerland is said to have experienced massive layoffs. The IT magazine got the information from an anonymous source.

The Swiss site IT Reseller has published an article (in German) on this topic here. Without words! After 15 years, I will probably have to look for alternatives for my customers. There is exactly one more German-speaking member of the support staff, as apparently about half of the service MAs and developers have been laid off by Broadcom. You can't buy additional licenses right now! My distributor has about 1,200 customer inquiries that cannot be processed. Broadcom obviously doesn't have the appropriate systems to manage license management. I spoke to Symantec support and a distributor and I am really speechless right now. In mid of February 2020 I received this German comment from blog reader Sileniu reporting a disturbing experience. See also the above tweet from November 2019. Symantec was rebranded to NortonLifeLock /qES4gYzNF8 At the end of November 2019, I reported in my German article Symantec-Übernahme durch Broadcom abgeschlossen that Broadcom had declared the Symantec acquisition as completed.īroadcom's Symantec acquisition was completed today. Symantec was sold some time ago for 10.7 billion US $ to the Broadcom.

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