Corporate History: Symanteq

Symantec first became well known as the publisher of Q & A an extraordinary dual-mode product that was both a word processor and a database. Gordon Eubanks joined Symantec In 1984 and from 1984-1986 he helped develop Q & A Write, He went on to become president and CEO of Symantec Under his guidance it into the software utility and anti-virus businesses. He left the company in 1999. This was probably a development of, or based on, Framework, another MS-DOS based program developed in 1983 Robert Carr and Marty Mazner. In July of that year, together with a six-man team, Carr and company released the original Framework. Framework, was probably the first office suite - an integrated word processor, outliner, mini-database and spreadsheet program.

The history of the company has been one of acquisitions followed by divestures. The company site lists the followi

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e obviously closely related, but do involve individual problems. The products of Symantec are intended to provide these services to computer systems. The Symantec Antivirus Research Center, now called "The Symantec Security Response Organization" is one of the foremost computer security research and antivirus groups and in the industry. The company produces a variety of products that include, Norton Internet Security, Norton Personal Firewall, Norton Antivirus, Antispan, Norton Commander, Norton Systemworks (which now contains the venerable Norton Utilities), and Norton Ghost (originally published by Binary Research) Norton GoBack formerly Roxio GoBack. All of these products are related to eliminating compromise of or damage to information in IT systems. All of these products are actively promoted in all the media that might effectively reach potential users/purchasers. The products are reasonably effective and thereby do deliver value to the customer. They are intended for Microsoft Windows PC users almost exclusively, which comprises the vast majority of computer users. During the 1990s, Symantec was also known and respected for its excellent development tools. C++, Think C, and the Think Pascal systems. These system
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