Four years ago the sizzling defense-electronics outfit snubbed New York buyout firm Veritas Capital.
Those endless vodka toasts were a way of seeing what you were really like: in vino veritas.
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Four Veritas engineers once spent six months working part-time to track a bug affecting a single customer.
He has an extensive operational background in enterprise software, with stints at Citrix (Nasdaq:CTXS), Microsoft and VERITAS Software.
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Project Veritas is most famous for exposing corruption in the community organizing group ACORN that led to its dissolution.
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He quit a few months later to run Veritas, now owned by Symantec.
The IRS lost the Veritas case, which emboldened companies like Amazon to be more aggressive in transfer pricing figures.
The new CEO of Symantec, Steve Bennett, should immediately prepare a sale or spin-out of the the Veritas business.
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Veritas Software (nasdaq: VRTS - news - people) was among the more prominent victims, down 9.4%.
Amazon can be expected to point to a 2009 court decision involving Veritas Software Corp, now part of Symantec Corp.
Wine aficionados flooding to Veritas for its 1, 000-plus selections are also treated to rich portions of food packed with flavor.
Veritas, a maker of well-regarded data storage software, now commonly sells products with 500, 000 to 1 million lines of code.
The duo spent years together building Veritas, focusing on the defense sector with help from retired generals like Barry R.
Besides being a former executive at Veritas, he also was to bring it all together the CEO of XenSource.
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Among other things, its shares never recovered after 2005, when it grossly overpaid in an all-stock purchase of storage-software provider Veritas.
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It isn't only poverty, says Inna Tsobenko of Veritas, an educational group.
He quit a few months later to run Veritas, now owned by Symantec (nasdaq: SYMC - news - people ).
The company also has Mark Leslie, founder and CEO of Veritas and former VMware board member, as an investor and board member.
A. admissions research at test-prep and admissions consulting firm Veritas Prep.
Yet magna est veritas and it must be told: last month the Lord Chief Justice of England, no less, said that which quite certainly was false.
Nor do we think Symantec is likely to break itself into separate data-storage and data-protection companies, as some critics of the unfortunate Veritas deal have advocated.
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Within the last year, CFIUS's merger reviews have included the Alcatel-Lucent deal as well as the acquisition that created the oil and gas drilling company CGG Veritas.
Robert McKeon, chief of New York private equity firm Veritas Capital, is on the verge of exiting the most lucrative deal of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A. admissions research at Veritas Prep, an admission consulting firm.
Frank Glassner, CEO of San Francisco-based Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants, said new Securities and Exchange Commission rules would allow shareholders to push the company to get money back from his severance deal.
Admissions consulting firm Veritas Prep added a Myers-Briggs personality assessment to its application-prep and GMAT study packages this spring, after noticing that business schools were paying more attention to personality and emotional maturity.
That this is no less true today than it was in 1998-99 is evidenced in an article in the July 31, 2011 issue Nikkei Veritas magazine, carried also on July 31 Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
Symantec took their eye off the ball when they acquired Veritas. 2005 was way too early for a software security vendor to attempt to mature into a tech holding company like IBM or HP.
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He spent more than five years at Symantec Corporation and at Veritas Software Corporation (now Symantec), where he served as vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Vault information archiving and discovery software business.
The other eight companies include Veritas , Northwestern Energy, Jacuzzi Brands (nyse: JJZ - news - people ), Tramell Crow , John Harland , Hydril (nasdaq: HYDL - news - people ) and Caremark .
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