I think what drove the decision was that both the security and the data sides were undergoing transformation in the marketplace. Security is a little ahead and data is moving toward information management. I think the Symantec board felt that the synergy between the two was less and therefore being able to execute a business transformation on both sides would be better with them split apart.
That’s the feeling I got when I started talking to [Symantec CEO] Mike Brown. I’d been on the board for many years — until 2011 — and he called me when he became the CEO and we talked about it right from then. I think it was just a practical business decision.
