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About Symantec

Symantec is the largest maker of security software for computers. Its headquarters are in Mountain View California. It was founded in 1982 by Gary Hendrix with a National Science Foundation grant and originally focused on artificial intelligence projects. In 1984 it merged with C&E software but retained the name Symantec. C&E had planned a file management and word processing functionality which was added to an advanced Natural Language query system architected by Hendrix. This set new standards for query and report generation and their flagship product Q&A was born. In 1986 Q&A was relaunched with an aggressive advertising campaign, expenses were cut, revenues grown and cash flow break-even was achieved. As a result KPCB (Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers) backed the company in raising more capital. Q&A became the first software in the world that supported German Natural Language.

Turner Hall Publishing was founded to incorporate Symantec's second product NoteIt (an annotation utility for Lotus 1-2-3) to avoid confusion. It was named after the then CEO Rod Turner and Dottie Hall (director of marketing communications). This diversified revenues and accelerated Symantec's growth. The new name also conveyed a sense of a stable, long established company. The Turner Hall Card (a 256k RAM) and SQZ (Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet compression utility) added to the success of Turner Hall Publishings by giving the impression Symantec was already a diversified company.

In 1987 Symantec made its first merger/acquisition with BreakThrough Software maker of the TimeLine project management software for DOS. Soon after the company was reorganized around product-centric groups. Apart from sales, finance and operations being shared all other areas were specific to product groups. The success of this venture led to further merger and acquisition activity by Symantec. Companies included Peter Norton Computing (with the Norton antivirus products), ACT!, Veritas, Sygate, Altiris acquisition, PC Tools, MessageLabs, PGP and Guardian Edge, VeriSign Security and most recently ClearWell Systems.

The Products

One of Symantec's main product ranges is the Norton security software. Norton Internet Security is the most comprehensive product covering all apsects of computer security. Other security products include Symantec Endpoint Protection, Symantec Data Loss Prevention and Symantec Critical System Protection. NetBackup, BackupExec and Veritas Storage Foundation are back up software. Enterprise Vault and Veritas Cluster Server are especially for large companies.

Strengths

Symantec does not have one dominant product but has rather focused on various product technologies that are leaders in their respective segments. Symantec's rapid expansion has been primarily through acquiring on average two companies per year. Symantec's further success is on ensuring that their software and services protect against more risks at more points helping consumers to feel confident wherever information is used or stored.

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