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Symantec let it be known via an SEC filing that group presidents Thomas Kendra and Greg Butterfiled are “no longer serving in such capacity with Symantec effective as of February 20, 2008.” The moves are a result of the fact that Symantec “has realigned its enterprise product groups to improve collaboration across the organization.”

The remaining “line leaders” will report directly to Enrique Salem, who became Symantec’s chief operating officer last month.

Kendra, who until last week headed Symante’c security and compliance group, joined the company four years ago and was named to his most recent position in April. Kendra’s got compensation last year valued at $4.2 million, including $606,134 in payments that were the final installment of $1.8 million he was awarded when he was hired, along with $750,000 paid to him upon the one-year anniversary of the company’s acquisition of Veritas as part of an “Executive Supplemental Incentive Plan” set-up in fiscal 2006.

Butterfiled had been chief executive of Altiris, a company that supplies IT managment software that Symantec acquired last April, and interim head of the storage and server management group.

Both men are “expected” to continue to “provide services” to Symantec through the June quarter.”