Before It Was a Giant: The Early History of Symantec, 1982-1999

William Aspray; James W. Cortada

doi:10.1109/MAHC.2016.12

Before It Was a Giant: The Early History of Symantec, 1982-1999

William Aspray, James W. Cortada

Charles Babbage Institute

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Abstract

Before Symantec became a major supplier of security software, it offered a variety of natural language microcomputer software products. Its growth into a security firm was the result of acquisitions of software enterprises and expanding market conditions in the 1980s and 1990s. This story tells not only about nimbleness in the early software industry, but also about the importance of venture capitalists in the success and failure of early software firms.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	7436658
Pages (from-to)	26-41
Number of pages	16
Journal	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Volume	38
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2016.12
State	Published - Oct 1 2016

Keywords

C&E Software
Peter Norton Computing
Symantec
antivirus software
history of computing
natural-language query
software security
system utility software

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