Symantec profit growth prospects anti-spyware

Symantec's CEO Thomson said in recent days, even though Microsoft will launch versions of XPSP2, but the company's business will continue to grow, and promised in the next few weeks to launch anti-spyware software. In
Wednesday at a general meeting, said Thomson, Symantec reported second-quarter profit compared to the same period last year, and a large increase in
this year will be the company's fastest-growing profits in the history of one year. According to statistics, this year's second-quarter net income of 1,36 billion U.S. dollars, up 64%, or 83,000,000 U.S. dollars.
Last year, the shock wave of viruses, exposed the vulnerability of many companies. This year, Symantec found 4,500 new viruses and worms, viruses last four or five times. Which has not yet emerged as a powerful shock wave like virus. Symantec has operations around the world, and its corporate business accounted for 49% of the company's profits, the average annual growth rate of 29%. The enterprise security products revenue and 36 percent of their income, management and other business services accounted for 11% and 2%.
Thomson said, now, enterprise services and improve the environment is still not enough, there are many companies under the banner of a price war trying to enter this field. At the same time, Symantec's business customers still account for 51% of its revenue.
He said that even though Microsoft will launch versions of XPSP2, is still optimistic about the outlook for corporate profits. In this version, Microsoft increased the number of security features, integrated firewall software. At the same time, Microsoft OEM manufacturers are also encouraged widespread use of third-party security products, such as Symantec's Norton Security Center, so as to further enhance the security of the PC. As a result, that Symantec, SP2 issue, will not result in significant losses, but, It is hard to say now, SP2 will cause the launch of a number of customer defection, the company does not have confidence. Brbrbr said race Symantec's firewall hardware business is also very good. 5400 Series firewall products company has brought 43% profit growth. Since June this year, 300 companies selling popular products, up 300 percent year-on-year increase. This quarter, against Symantec business unit prepared to launch long-range 400 series, 300 series and the product can be organically integrated to further enhance the central management capabilities.
At the same time, Thomson said that the anti-spyware market is the next priority. Symantec products to detect spyware, but can not be isolated and deleted. In the corporate market and individual users, anti-spyware is in full swing, a broad market prospect. In the future, the company will integrate a number of security products, launched series of anti-virus software.