LIST OF SYMANTEC ACQUISITIONS

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

Contents
1987
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
External links and sources

1987

★ Breakthrough Software

★ Living Videotext

★ THINK Technologies makers of software development tools for the Apple Macintosh

1990

★ August : Peter Norton Computing, Inc.

1991

★ Dynamic Microprocessor Associates, Inc. makers of pcAnywhere

★ 'Zortech Inc.' Makers of the Zortech suite of C/C++ compilers.

★ Leonard Development Group

1992

★ Cetrus International Corporation

★ MultiScope, Inc.

★ Whitewater Group, Inc.

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.

1994

★ June: Central Point Software (PC Tools, Microsoft Anti-Virus for MS-DOS and Windows, ''Mac Tools'')

★ Intec Systesm Corporation

★ SLR Systems, Inc.

1995

★ November: Delrina (''WinFax'')

★ FastTrack, Inc.

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

1999

★ July: URLabs

2000

★ February: L-3 Network Security

★ April: 20/20 Software Inc.

★ December: AXENT Technologies (Firewall,Vulnerability Management (Enterprise Security manager) and Virtual Private Network software)

2001

★ July: Foster-Melliar

★ October: Lindner & Pelc

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

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)

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

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 IT security compliance and vulnerability management solutions company, who's products include bv-Control, bv-Admin, Compliance manager and Policy Manager

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.

2007

★ January: Altiris

★ February: 4FrontSecurity, a Virginia-based risk management and compliance firm

External links and sources

★ Symantec Corp

★ Press Release mentioning the purchase of THINK

★ Press Release mentioning the purchase of Altiris