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Symantec Corporation

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Company type	Public (Nasdaq: SYMC)
Industry	Computer Software
Founded	Sunnyvale, California (March 1 1982)
Headquarters	Cupertino, California, USA (incorporated in Delaware)
Key people	John W. Thompson, CEO James Beer, CFO Mark Bregman, CTO
Products	Brightmail Enterprise Vault i3 Symantec Mail Security Instant Messaging Manager WinFax PRO Norton AntiBot Norton AntiVirus Norton Commander Norton Internet Security Norton 360 Norton Personal Firewall Norton SystemWorks Procomm Plus Symantec Ghost VxFS VxVM VxSF NetBackup Veritas Backup Exec Cluster Server (VCS) Veritas CommandCentral Storage Veritas Enterprise Administrator Veritas Process Automation Manager Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) Veritas SANPoint
Revenue	$5.19 Billion USD (2007)
Operating income	355,000,000 United States dollar (2020)
Net income	$156.85 Million USD (2006)
Total assets	6,361,000,000 United States dollar (2021)
Number of employees	17,100 (2007) [1]
Website	www.Symantec.com

Symantec Corporation Nasdaq: SYMC, founded in 1982, is an international corporation which sells computer software, particularly in the realms of security and information management. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, USA, Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries.

History

Symantec first became well-known as the publisher of Q & A, a dual-mode product that was both a word processor and a database. During the 1990s, Symantec switched focus away from development of its own products and towards acquisition of other companies. An early purchase gave Symantec ownership of Norton Utilities, created in the mid-1980s by software engineer Peter Norton. 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.

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 AntiSpam, Norton GoBack (formerly Roxio GoBack), 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 was replaced by Norton Ghost.

Symantec is also an industry leader in comprehensive electronic messaging security, offering solutions for instant messaging, antispam, antivirus, legal compliance, content compliance, legal discovery and message archiving.

The Symantec Security Response organization (formerly Symantec Antivirus Research Center) is one of the foremost antivirus and computer security research groups in the industry.

On December 16, 2004, VERITAS and Symantec announced their plans for a merger. With VERITAS valued at $13.5 billion, it was the largest software industry merger to date. Symantec's shareholders voted to approve the merger on June 24, 2005; the deal closed successfully on July 2. July 5, 2005 was the first day of business for U.S. offices of the new, combined software company. After the merger, Symantec now includes storage related products in its portfolio. Veritas file system(vxfs), Veritas Volume Manger(VXVM) and Volume Replicator are but three.

On January 29, 2007, Symantec announced plans to acquire Altiris and on April 6th, 2007 the acquisition was completed. Altiris specializes in service-oriented management software which allows organizations to manage IT assets. They also provide software for web services, security, and systems management products. Established in 1998, Altiris is headquartered in Lindon, Utah, United States.

For a fuller list of acquisitions, see List of Symantec acquisitions.

See also

• John W. Thompson
• Gordon Eubanks (former CEO)
• Symantec software
• Norton 360
• Backup Exec

External links

• Symantec Official Website
• Symantec's UK Security Operations Centre (SOC) bunker
• Nortons.com Symantec Partner Website

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