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 | |
| 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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Aspray, W., & Cortada, J. W. (2016). Before It Was a Giant: The Early History of Symantec, 1982-1999. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 38(4), 26-41. [7436658]. https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2016.12