The new CEO of Symantec, Steve Bennett, should immediately prepare a sale or spin-out of the the Veritas business.

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B2B spin-out, the executives of such firms are easy targets for fast-moving e-business software providers such as Commerce One (the aerospace victor), Oracle and Ariba, which often propose the deal and promise to do most of the hard work.

ECONOMIST: In the air

This was to be the next business to spin out of Microsoft after Expedia but missed the window before the dot-com bust.

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