Symantec to acquire PowerQuest

[bsobel]

FYI all (I figure a thread will startup about this, so I might as well start it). We just announced the acquisition of PowerQuest (makers of DriveImage, PartitionMagic, etc) into the Symantec family. If anyone has any questions/comments, I'll answer what I can.

Best,
Bill

 

[Auric]

Nooo! Symantec bloats everything they buy... Norton Anti-Virus, Delrina WinFAX, Binary Research Ghost.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Since Drive Image has gotten unreliable with the last couple of versions I was planning to switch to Ghost anyway

Hmm, any chance Symantec will take out the server OS check from Partition Magic? For my home server I had to put in a smaller boot drive (30 GB) just so I could use PM4 with it. (PM4 only supports up to 32 GB, but was before they put the OS check in.).

And at work we set up laptops with multiple W2K Server boots to run WebCT and Blackboard demo servers for trade shows, and it's a minor annoyance that we can't change the partitions after the first install. Spending an extra $1K for "enterprise" partitioning software for a 2-user demo server (or 1-5 user development server) just doesn't make sense.

 

[bsobel]

Hmm, any chance Symantec will take out the server OS check from Partition Magic? For my home server I had to put in a smaller boot drive (30 GB) just so I could use PM4 with it. (PM4 only supports up to 32 GB, but was before they put the OS check in.).

Can't say for sure (the roadmaps are still being worked on), but I will bring it up with PM so they are aware of the feedback.

Best,
Bill

 

[GrumpyMan]

I have Diskeeper 7.01 now and it is kind of buggy as far as small things like the window keeps resizing itself no matter what is done when it is opened. Mostly small problems like that. It does however work as advertised. Will there be a meshing of Ghost and DriveImage or will they remain separate? Also is Symantec also moving to the .Net intiative from MS on all it's software like DriveImage?

 

[DaveSimmons]

> Also is Symantec also moving to the .Net intiative from MS on all it's software like DriveImage?

Good point, hopefully Symantec will not go .Net-crazy and will keep offering DOS versions of Ghost, Partition Magic and Bootmagic for those of us supporting machines that must run older, .Net-free OSs and multi-OS setups.

 

[zzzz]

I hope they dont acquire acronis.

 

[mboy]

That blows!!!

 

[Miramonti]

I prefer ghost too and never found symantec useful for anything other than viruses.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: jjsole
I prefer ghost too and never found symantec useful for anything other than viruses.

Not sure that made alot of sense. Where you trying to say you prefer DriveImage better (Ghost is from Symantec)
Bill