The shareholders of AVG think it's a good thing. Share price went up 30 percent on the sale. I'm surprised that Avast had 1.3 Billion in cash to spend. Clearly they're doing something right business-wise especially considering they're a private company and aren't spending shareholders money.

I'll wait and see what happens to/with Avast first before I make any judgement but if Avast adopts any of AVG's technology to it's own product then I'd be likely to switch a/v products quickly meaning bye bye Avast.