 The four years from 2000–2004 saw greatly improved sales and eventual acquisition by VERITAS Software in 2004.Veritas was subsequently acquired by Symantec in 2005 for $13.5B.However, on February 1st 2016, Symantec completed its sale of Veritas to the Carlyle group for $7.4B and Enterprise Vault again reverted to being a Veritas product.