[news=http://www.symantec.com/images/homepage/global.global.logo.gif]Symantec will slowly move toward supplying its consumer applications--such as Norton Antivirus and Norton Utilities--as a service.
At a roundtable discussion in Sydney on Thursday morning, David Sykes, vice president of Symantec in the Pacific Region, explained that as broadband becomes ubiquitous and consumers get used to purchasing software online instead of in a box, security services--and even PC utilities--could be sold as a service.
According to Sykes, this is already happening in countries such as Korea where Internet service providers are reselling applications on behalf of security companies such as Symantec.
"The ISP licenses our product and delivers the service--they do the scanning, disk fragmenting and other stuff that Norton SystemWorks does--and they deliver that down the pipe," he said.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Symantec+hopes...&subj=technews[/news]
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