As an employee of Symantec, I hear many different opinions of our company. Last night, I was at the Austin On Rails party at SXSW, and I met a guy that was confused about the positioning of security companies on botnets, spyware, etc. After talking with him for a few minutes, I told him a little of what I know about what NIS does, especially the WholeSecurity contributions to NIS, and he was very impressed with what NIS can do. Everything happens without the users knowing, which is good and bad. (BTW, I could not straighten out his confusion on botnets and spyware. That is above my pay grade.)

Here at SXSW, I went to listen to Jason Fried of 37signals, and one opinion that he had was that TV chefs are the best business people at this time. His reasoning is that the chefs share what they know. They do not fear others stealing their recipes they share in books and on TV. I bring this up, because I hope that Symantec can share many of their recipes. They have lots of them, and they are the best in the world.