There isn’t much overlap to this deal, it actually brings together leading products on both sides. Blue Coat comes with its leading network proxy and web security offerings, as well as burgeoning businesses in network security analytics and cloud security. Wall Street is fairly bullish on the deal so far, it likes the financial engineering and commitment from private equity folks and sees the opportunity to create an Oracle- or SAP-like enterprise software vendor in cybersecurity. The new Symantec will still have some product gaps to overcome, but there is still no real security analytics play.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3083174/quick-take-symantec-buys-blue-coat.html