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Symantec Corporation Type Public (NASDAQ: SYMC) Founded Sunnyvale, California (March 1, 1982) Headquarters Cupertino, California, U.S. (incorporated in Delaware) Key people John W. Thompson, CEO James Beer, CFO Mark Bregman, CTO Enrique T. Salem, COO David Thompson, CIO Greg Hughes, CSO Industry Computer Software Symantec Corporation was founded in 1982 by Gary Hendrix with a National Science Foundation grant. Symantec was originally focused on artificial intelligence-related projects, including a database program. Hendrix hired several Stanford University natural language processing researchers as the company's first employees. In 1984 Symantec was acquired by another, even smaller computer software startup company, C&E Software, founded by Dennis Coleman and Gordon E. Eubanks, Jr., and headed by Eubanks. The merged company retained the name Symantec, and Eubanks became its chief executive officer. Its first product, Q&A, was released in 1985. Q&A provided database management and bundled a word processor. In August of 1990, Symantec purchased Peter Norton Computing a developer of various applications for DOS. Symantec's consumer antivirus and data management utilities are still marketed under Peter Norton's name. Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Founding 1.2 Norton Products 1.3 Veritas Merger 1.4 Sygate Acquisition 1.5 Altiris Acquisition 1.6 Vector Capital sellout 2 Mergers and acquisitions 3 See History Founding At one time Symantec was also known for its development tools, particularly the THINK Pascal, THINK C, Symantec C++, and Visual Cafe packages that were popular on the Macintosh and IBM PC compatible platforms; they exited this business in the late-1990s as competitors such as Metrowerks, Microsoft, and Borland gained significant market share. Norton Products In recent years, Symantec has been primarily known for its Norton-branded antivirus and utility software. Products released under the Symantec name include Norton AntiVirus, Norton Commander, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Norton Personal Firewall, Norton SystemWorks (which now contains Norton Utilities), Norton Password Manager, Norton AntiSpam, Norton GoBack (formerly Roxio GoBack), Norton Confidential, Norton AntiBot and Norton Ghost (originally published by Binary Research). Due to the 2003 acquisition of PowerQuest, Symantec continues to sell, but not develop, the last version of PartitionMagic, now called Norton PartitionMagic. This is true as well of the NetWare partition manager, ServerMagic. PowerQuest's Drive Image software replaced the original Norton Ghost software, yet retains Norton Ghost as its name. Symantec is also an industry leader in comprehensive electronic messaging security, offering solutions for instant messaging, | ||||
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