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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[edit] 2007

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

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