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Before It Was a Giant: The Early History of Symantec, 1982-1999 (2016)

Aspray, William F. (Author)
Cortada, James W. (Author)

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Volume: 38
Issue: No. 4
Pages: 26-41

DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2016.12

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Computer viruses Software Venture capital Computer security; cyber security History of Computing Software engineering 20th century 21st century United States Symantec Corporation Peter Norton Computing Corporation

Before Symantec became a major supplier of security software, it offered a variety of natural language microcomputer software products. Its growth into a security firm was the result of acquisitions of software enterprises and expanding market conditions in the 1980s and 1990s. This story tells not only about nimbleness in the early software industry, but also about the importance of venture capitalists in the success and failure of early software firms.

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