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Dr. [[Gary Hedricks]], a natural language and artificial intelligence expert together with a group of researchers from Stanford University established Symantec in 1982. The company used the grant provided by the [[NSF|National Science Foundation]] as initial capital to develop new software and database program. In 1983, some venture capitalist interested in artificial intelligence provided additional funding to Hendrix. Dennis Coleman and Gordon E. Eubanks, Jr., co-founders of C&E software agreed to merged their company with Symantec in 1984. Symantec was retained the name of the joint company and Eubanks became its CEO. John Doerr, a venture capitalist believed that Symantec has a great potential. He provided capital and became member of the board of directors. In 1985, Symantec’s introduced its first product called Q&A, a flat-file database management software program compatible with IBM personal computer.  The company sold $ 8 million for the first two years but the company was expecting better sales result. This prompted Eubanks to establish the company’s Turner Hall Publishing division to publish third-party software. By October 1985, Note-It; a notation utility for Lotus 1-2-3 was published by Turner Hall. <ref>[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/symantec-corporation-company-history.html Symantec Corporation History]</ref>

Dr. [[Gary Hedricks]], a natural language and artificial intelligence expert together with a group of researchers from Stanford University established Symantec in 1982. The company used the grant provided by the [[NSF|National Science Foundation]] as initial capital to develop new software and database program. In 1983, some venture capitalist interested in artificial intelligence provided additional funding to Hendrix. Dennis Coleman and Gordon E. Eubanks, Jr., co-founders of C&E software agreed to merged their company with Symantec in 1984. Symantec was retained the name of the joint company and Eubanks became its CEO. John Doerr, a venture capitalist believed that Symantec has a great potential. He provided capital and became member of the board of directors. In 1985, Symantec’s introduced its first product called Q&A, a flat-file database management software program compatible with IBM personal computer.  The company sold $ 8 million for the first two years but the company was expecting better sales result. This prompted Eubanks to establish the company’s Turner Hall Publishing division to publish third-party software. By October 1985, Note-It; a notation utility for Lotus 1-2-3 was published by Turner Hall. <ref>[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/symantec-corporation-company-history.html Symantec Corporation History]</ref>

In 1987, Symantec acquired different companies such as: Breakthrough Software, developer of Timeline- a project management program for compatible with IBM pc; Living Videotext, developer of ThinkTank- a graphic presentation program for Macintosh and Grandview- an information management program for personal computers; Think Technologies, developer of programming languages THINK C and THINK Pascal for the Macintosh. The company also developed InBox, an electronic mail system. Symantec made its initial public offering on June 23, 1989.

In 1987, Symantec acquired different companies such as: Breakthrough Software, developer of Timeline- a project management program for compatible with IBM pc; Living Videotext, developer of ThinkTank- a graphic presentation program for Macintosh and Grandview- an information management program for personal computers; Think Technologies, developer of programming languages THINK C and THINK Pascal for the Macintosh. The company also developed InBox, an electronic mail system. Symantec made its initial public offering on June 23, 1989 with  Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol SYMC.<ref>[http://investor.symantec.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=89422&p=irol-faq Symantec Investor Relations FAQs]</ref>

The following year, Symantec acquired Peter Norton Computing Inc., pioneer in developing DOS-based utilities software known as the Norton Utilities used to backup and compress files and to check for viruses and restore lost data. Peter Norton Computing Inc.,  became a division of Symantec and it was renamed Peter Norton Computing Group.<ref>

The following year, Symantec acquired Peter Norton Computing Inc., pioneer in developing DOS-based utilities software known as the Norton Utilities used to backup and compress files and to check for viruses and restore lost data. Peter Norton Computing Inc.,  became a division of Symantec and it was renamed Peter Norton Computing Group.<ref>