SP2 impact minimal on firewall market, vendors say
Microsoft Corp's inclusion of a rudimentary on-by-default personal firewall in Windows XP Service Pack 2 has had so far minimal impact on other vendors and may prove a boon in future, the CEOs of two such companies said this week.
Symantec Corp CEO John Thompson, discussing the company's fiscal second quarter results, said Symantec's own client security software could be an "enormous benefactor" of the existence of Windows Firewall.
