Symantec Spooks Partners
Symantec raised partners' eyebrows this summer when COO Enrique Salem told a group of Wall Street analysts that the company is giving its largest 900 customers the option to buy direct. Salem also revealed that Symantec plans to automate SMB software license renewals, a strategy that caused concern among some partners that those renewals would go directly through Symantec. The vendor maintains that the process will facilitate renewals through partners, but some solution providers remain unconvinced.
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