List of Symantec acquisitions
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Since 1987, Symantec has acquired the following corporations/technologies (chronologically):
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[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.
- 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
[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
- 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.
