Symantec, Veritas reach out to investors, Cnet News.com, 5 Jan 2005

“Faced with muted enthusiasm from investors, Symantec and Veritas outlined their case to shareholders Wednesday over the benefits of their pending $13.5 billion merger that will marry the security giant and a leading storage company…The CEOs--Symantec's John Thompson and Veritas' Gary Bloom--said their customers, partners and an assortment of hardware vendors have responded to the merger in a "positive fashion," but investors have yet to fall in line. Thus came Wednesday's Webcast pitch--the companies will need their investors, as well as regulators, to sign off on the deal.�

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