He has an extensive operational background in enterprise software, with stints at Citrix (Nasdaq:CTXS), Microsoft and VERITAS Software.

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Veritas Software (nasdaq: VRTS - news - people) was among the more prominent victims, down 9.4%.

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Amazon can be expected to point to a 2009 court decision involving Veritas Software Corp, now part of Symantec Corp.

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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.

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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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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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Veritas, a maker of well-regarded data storage software, now commonly sells products with 500, 000 to 1 million lines of code.

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