Symantec Logo — Symantec Corporation is a corporation International develops and markets software for computers , particularly in the domain of computer security . Headquartered in Mountain View , California , Symantec has operations in over forty countries.
Founded in 1982 by Gary Hendrix with an endorsement of the National Science Foundation . Symantec initially focuses on projects related to artificial intelligence , including a database manager. Hendrix hired several researchers in natural language processing from Stanford University as the first employees of the company. In 1984 Symantec is acquired by another, even smaller startup company software, C & E Software, founded by Dennis Coleman and Gordon E. Eubanks, Jr., and directed by Eubanks. The resulting company retained the name Symantec, and Eubanks becomes its executive director . Its first product, Q & A , was launched in 1985. Q & A provides a management database and comes with a word processor . More