List of Symantec acquisitions

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Since 1987, Symantec has acquired the following corporations/technologies (chronologically):

Contents 1 1987 2 1990 3 1991 4 1992 5 1993 6 1994 7 1995 8 1998 9 1999 10 2000 11 2001 12 2002 13 2003 14 2004 15 2005 16 2006 17 2007 18 External links and sources

[edit] 1987

• Breakthrough Software
• Living Videotext
• THINK Technologies makers of software development tools for the Apple Macintosh

[edit] 1990

• August : Peter Norton Computing, Inc.

[edit] 1991

• Dynamic Microprocessor Associates, Inc. makers of pcAnywhere
• Zortech Inc. Makers of the Zortech suite of C/C++ compilers.^{[citation needed]}
• Leonard Development Group

[edit] 1992

• Cetrus International Corporation
• MultiScope, Inc.
• Whitewater Group, Inc.

[edit] 1993

• Contact Software International, Inc. makers of ACT! for DOS, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh
• Distributor Pro and NetDistributor Pro
• October: Fifth Generation Systems
• Rapid Enterpises, Inc.

[edit] 1994

• June: Central Point Software (PC Tools, Microsoft Anti-Virus for MS-DOS and Windows, Mac Tools)
• Intec Systesm Corporation
• SLR Systems, Inc.

[edit] 1995

• November: Delrina (WinFax)
• FastTrack, Inc.

[edit] 1998

• May: IBM's antivirus and immune system technology
• June: Binary Research Limited (Ghost application)
• September: Intel's antivirus and systems management software
• November: Quarterdeck Corporation

[edit] 1999

• July: URLabs

[edit] 2000

• February: L-3 Network Security
• April: 20/20 Software Inc.
• December: AXENT Technologies (Firewall and Virtual Private Network software)

[edit] 2001

• July: Foster-Melliar
• October: Lindner & Pelc

[edit] 2002

• July: Mountain Wave, provider of enterprise security management software and services
• August: SecurityFocus, maintainers of the Bugtraq security mailing list. US based provider of enterprise security threat management systems, early warning systems and the most complete vulnerability database
• August: Recourse Technologies, Provider of intrusion detection solutions ManHunt and ManTrap
• August: Riptech, Inc., Provider of real-time managed security services

[edit] 2003

• April: GoBack is bought from Roxio
• July: Nexland, an internet security company
• October: SafeWeb, a provider of SSL VPN appliances
• October: ON Technology, an enterprise systems lifecycle management software company
• December: PowerQuest (Drive Image, PartitionMagic, ServerMagic)

[edit] 2004

• June: Brightmail, makers of anti-spam software
• July: TurnTide, makers of anti-spam appliances
• October: @stake, a security consultancy company
• October: LIRIC Associates, a British security consultancy firm
• December: Platform Logic, a software security company

[edit] 2005

• May: XtreamLok, an Australian information security company, whose anti-piracy and product activation technologies had been part of Symantec's consumer products for several years.
• July: VERITAS, makers of storage management software. With VERITAS valued at $13.5 billion, this was the largest software industry merger to date.
• August: Sygate Technologies, a security software firm with about 200 staff, based in Fremont, California.
• September: WholeSecurity, an Austin, Texas-based company which provided behaviour-based anti-malware and anti-phishing software.
• October: BindView, a Houston, Texas security and compliance solutions company.

[edit] 2006

• January: IMLogic, a Waltham, Massachusetts company which produces software to secure instant messaging systems.
• February: Relicore, a Burlington, Massachusetts company producing systems management software.
• November: Company-i, a UK-based professional services firm that specializes in addressing key challenges associated with operating and managing a data center in the financial services industry
• November: Revivio, a Lexington, Massachusetts company producing a continuous data protection product.

[edit] 2007

• January: Altiris
• February: 4FrontSecurity, a Virginia-based risk management and compliance firm

[edit] External links and sources

• Symantec Corp
• Press Release mentioning the purchase of THINK
• Press Release mentioning the purchase of Altiris