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Symantec boss on US Commerce Secretary shortlist

Symantec boss John Thompson is on a two-person shortlist to fill the role of the next US Commerce Secretary, the final unfilled vacancy in President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet. Thompson, 59, chairman and chief exec at Symantec, recently announced that he would step down from leading the security and storage software giant in …

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Todd Anderson
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We're in trouble

Do you think that he did a good job with Symantec? A security company that gave us PC Anywhere; a tool that has been involved in numerous remote attacks of small restaurants and retail establishments. This is just the old-boy network at work.

JeffyPooh
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So it'll be "Commerce Dept. Sucks" next?

Geesh - Symantec has not exactly been exploring the heights of customer satisfaction recently. Google the search terms "Symantec Sucks" if you don't have any first-hand experience with any of their 'stellar' (not) consumer products as Norton Internet Security 2007 (created under his highly-compensated watch).

Anyway - I wish him the very best of luck, and I highly recommend a novel management approach called "attention to detail" - he should try it some time.

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