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At the beginning of the year, Channel Insider readers predicted that the “Great Recession of 2009” would cause the demise of 12 well-known IT vendors--including VMware, McAfee and Salesforce.com. We revisit those predictions to see how accurate they were. As you’ll see, someone needs a better Magic 8 Ball.

Vendors That Survived the Recession: 2009 Dire Predictions Revisited - 4. Feeling More Secure


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4. McAfee
Demise Prediction Rate: 20%
January 2009 Market Cap: $4.96 billion
December 2009 Market Cap: $6.46 billion

McAfee is a vendor that has appeared in a number of death pools over the past five years. It may be the world’s largest pure-play security vendor, but it’s still a distant second to Symantec. Rumors have persisted that McAfee has tried selling to Cisco, HP, Microsoft and even EMC. That chatter stopped though last spring when McAfee changed its tune and started positioning itself for growth. McAfee is now focused on getting bigger rather than selling out.

>> CHECK OUT the original "Dire Predictions" list by clicking here



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  1. Vendors That Survived the Recession: 2009 Dire Predictions Revisited
  2. 12. A Virtualization Giant Falters?
  3. 11. Losing Faith in Security/Storage Combo?
  4. 10. Virtualization Challenger
  5. 9. Former King of Silicon Valley Falls
  6. 8. When the Chips are Down ...
  7. 7. A Vendor with Tainted Love
  8. 6. Not Cisco, but Does that Matter?
  9. 5. Dreaming of a Cloudy Future
  10. 4. Feeling More Secure
  11. 3. Steady, Steady, Steady Security
  12. 2. Storage Too Expensive to Acquire
  13. 1. A Never Say Die Software Vendor