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69-773: Gen Digital Inc. (formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock Inc. ) is a multinational software company co-headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Prague , Czech Republic. The company provides cybersecurity software and services. Gen is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&;P 500 stock-market index. The company also has development centers in Pune , Chennai and Bangalore . Its portfolio includes Norton , Avast , LifeLock , Avira , AVG , ReputationDefender , and CCleaner . On October 9, 2014, Symantec declared it would split into two independent publicly traded companies by

138-496: A B.S. and an M.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1976. Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor . He eventually became one of Intel's most successful salespeople. He also holds several patents for memory devices. In 1980, Doerr was offered a job with Kleiner Perkins. Intel president Andrew Grove told him, "John, venture capital, that's not

207-521: A crypto-miner was added to the Norton 360 product, called Norton Crypto. Once activated by the user, Norton Crypto mines Ethereum (ETH) using the installed machine's graphics card while idle. The program also creates a secure wallet on the same machine. Norton announced it was permanently disabling the feature on September 14, 2022, due to the Ethereum merge. On October 9, 2014, Symantec declared that

276-444: A 24-hour company working day, if the teams, systems, and procedures are well established. A good example is the test team in a time zone 8 hours ahead or behind the development team, who fix software bugs found by the testers. A professional software company normally consists of at least three dedicated sub-teams : In bigger software companies, greater specialization is employed, and quite often there are also: The manager of

345-551: A German version was shipped three weeks after the United States version, and it was the first software in the world that supported German Natural Language) following Turner's having emphasized establishing international sales distribution and multiple language versions of Q&A from the initial shipment. In 1985, Rod Turner negotiated the publishing agreement with David Whitney for Symantec's second product, which Turner named NoteIt (an annotation utility for Lotus 1-2-3 ). It

414-520: A book about goal-setting, and Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now . In 2022, John and his wife Ann collaborated with Stanford University to launch its first new school in about 70 years: Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability . Doerr was born in St. Louis, Missouri . One of five siblings, Doerr graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis. Doerr obtained

483-480: A business that had revenues, inventory, and customers, Eubanks chose to change nothing at BreakThrough Software for six months, and the actual merger logistics started in the summer of 1987, with Turner being appointed by Eubanks as general manager of the TimeLine business unit, Turner was made responsible for the successful integration of the company into Symantec and ongoing growth of the business, with P&L. There

552-564: A developer of various utilities for DOS. Turner was appointed as product group manager for the Norton business, and made responsible for the merger, with P&L responsibility. Ted Schlein was made product group manager for the Q&;A business. The Peter Norton group merger logistical effort began immediately while the companies sought approval for the merger, and in August 1990, Symantec concluded

621-582: A different group plays a key role, however each type of role must be involved throughout the whole development process: Software companies possess various systems and procedures implemented and working internally across all the sub-teams. These include: There are also Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), which embed some of these functionalities in one package and are used across the groups. They are delivered from various vendors like Borland , ECM or Compuware . Well-established software companies typically have some way of measuring their own efficiency. This

690-434: A few years, Eubanks added chairmanship to his other roles. After a slow start for sales of Q&A in the fall of 1985 and spring of 1986, Rod Turner, a Symantec Sr. Executive, signed up a new advertising agency called Elliott/Dickens, embarked on an aggressive new advertising campaign, and came up with the "Six Pack Program" in which all Symantec employees, regardless of role, went on the road, training and selling nationwide in

759-534: A former employee, causing it to delay its annual earnings report. In August 2018, Symantec announced that the hedge fund Starboard Value had put forward five nominees to stand for election to the Symantec board of directors at Symantec's 2018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. This followed a Schedule 13D filing by Starboard showing that it had accumulated a 5.8% stake in Symantec. In September 2018, Symantec announced that three nominees of Starboard were joining

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828-521: A list of the then "100 dirtiest websites", which contain the most malware as detected by Norton Safe Web . Salem was abruptly fired in 2012 for disappointing earnings performance and replaced by Steve Bennett , a former CEO of Intuit and GE executive. In January 2013, Bennett announced a major corporate reorganization, with the goal of reducing costs and improving Symantec's product line. He said that sales and marketing "had been high costs but did not provide quality outcomes". He concluded that "Our system

897-531: A member of the company's board of directors since July 2005 following the acquisition of VERITAS Software Corporation. Mr. Brown had served on the VERITAS board of directors since 2003. In July 2016, Symantec introduced a product to help carmakers protect connected vehicles against zero-day attacks. The Symantec Anomaly Detection for Automotive is an IoT product for manufacturers and uses machine learning to provide in-vehicle security analytics. Greg Clark assumed

966-449: A new division of Symantec, and Eubanks delegated the choice of name to Turner. Turner chose the name Turner Hall Publishing, to be a new division of Symantec devoted to publishing third-party software and hardware. The objective of the division was to diversify revenues and accelerate the growth of Symantec. Turner chose the name Turner Hall Publishing, using his last name and that of Dottie Hall (Director of Marketing Communications) to convey

1035-490: A number of various methodologies to produce the code. These can include: There are also some methodologies which combine both, such as the spiral model , Rational Unified Process (RUP) or MSF . Regardless of the methodology used, the product life cycle always consists of at least three stages: Each stage ideally takes 30% of the total time, with the remaining 10% in reserve. The UML sequence diagram of interaction between these groups may look like: At each stage

1104-450: A private equity group led by The Carlyle Group for $ 8 billion. The sale was completed by February 2016, turning Veritas into a privately owned company. Norton product line includes Norton AntiVirus , Norton Small Business, Norton Family , Norton Mobile Security, Norton Online Backup, Norton 360 , Norton Utilities and Norton Computer Tune Up. Norton's line also includes LifeLock and ReputationDefender . In 2012, PC Tools iAntiVirus

1173-540: A real job. It's like being a real estate agent." He joined Kleiner Perkins that year, and since then has directed the distribution of venture capital funding to technology companies including Compaq , Netscape , Symantec , Sun Microsystems , drugstore.com , Amazon.com , Intuit , Macromedia , and Google . Doerr has backed entrepreneurs, including Larry Page , Sergey Brin , and Eric Schmidt of Google ; Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com ; and Scott Cook and Bill Campbell of Intuit . Doerr co-founded and serves on

1242-561: A security software firm based in Fremont , California, with about 200 staff. As of November 30, 2005, all Sygate personal firewall products were discontinued. On January 29, 2007, Symantec announced plans to acquire Altiris , and on April 6, 2007, the acquisition was completed. Altiris specializes in service-oriented management software that allows organizations to manage IT assets. It also provides software for web services, security and systems management products. Established in 1998, Altiris

1311-486: A software company is usually called the Head Of Development (HOD), and reports to the stakeholders . He or she leads the sub-teams directly or via the managers/leaders depending on the size of the organization . Usually teams of up to 10 person are the most operational. In bigger organizations, there are in general two models of the hierarchy: All the teams are fully independent and they work separately on

1380-501: Is a major backer of the education company Remind . In 2016, Doerr stepped down from his role leading Kleiner Perkins, ceding leadership to Ted Schlein . Doerr mentored Ellen Pao when she first joined Kleiner Perkins. Before changing his mind in 2012, he was known for challenging those who gave her negative performance reviews. Doerr serves on the board of the Obama Foundation and ONE.org. In February 2009, Doerr

1449-510: Is defined by numbers) and total anarchy (where there are no numbers at all). Whichever way the organization goes, they consider the pyramid describing the cost and risk of introducing change to already-begun development processes as a true model to manage changes. John Doerr L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951) is an American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park, California . In February 2009, Doerr

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1518-475: Is headquartered in Lindon , Utah . On November 5, 2007, Symantec announced its acquisition of Vontu, a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) company, for $ 350 million. On January 17, 2008, Symantec announced that it was spinning off its Application Performance Management (APM) business and the i3 product line to Vector Capital. Precise Software Solutions took over development, product management, marketing and sales for

1587-467: Is just broken". Robert Enderle of CIO.com reviewed the reorganization and noted that Bennett was following the General Electric model of being product-focused instead of customer-focused. He concluded "Eliminating middle management removes a large number of highly paid employees. This will tactically improve Symantec's bottom line but reduce the skills needed to ensure high-quality products in

1656-639: Is usually done by defining the set of key performance indicators (KPI), such as A number of organizations are focused on reaching the optimum level of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), where "optimum" does not necessarily mean the highest. There are also other systems such as Carnegie-Mellon University 's SEMA , or particular ISO standards. Small software companies will often use light-weight approaches to their process, formalized or not. Each organization works out its own style, which lies somewhere between total technocracy (where all

1725-579: The APM business, launching as an independent company on September 17, 2008. On August 18, 2008, Symantec announced the signing of an agreement to acquire PC Tools . Under the agreement, PC Tools would maintain separate operations. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. In May 2013, Symantec announced they were discontinuing the PC Tools line of internet security software. In December 2013, Symantec announced they were discontinuing and retiring

1794-633: The Enterprise software division of Symantec for $ 10.7 billion. This is after having attempted to purchase the whole company. The Norton family of products will remain in the Symantec portfolio. The sale closed on November 4, 2019, and subsequently, the company adopted the NortonLifeLock name and relocated its headquarters from Mountain View, California to LifeLock's offices in Tempe, Arizona. In 2021,

1863-513: The Mac, and this success made the Norton merger more strategic. Symantec had already begun the development of a DOS-based antivirus program one year before the merger with Norton. The management team had decided to enter the antivirus market in part because it was felt that the antivirus market entailed a great deal of ongoing work to stay ahead of new viruses. The team felt that Microsoft would be unlikely to find this effort attractive, which would lengthen

1932-484: The PC. This left Symantec without a product, but with expertise in natural language database query systems and technology. As a result, later in 1984, Symantec was acquired by another, smaller software startup company, C&E Software, founded by Denis Coleman and Gordon Eubanks and headed by Eubanks. C&E Software developed a combined file management and word processing program called Q&A . The merged company retained

2001-406: The Q&A for Windows and the TimeLine for Windows development efforts during the critical period from 1988 through 1992. Symantec exited this business in the late-1990s as competitors such as Metrowerks , Microsoft and Borland gained significant market share. In 1996, Symantec Corporation was accused of misleading financial statements in violation of GAAP . From 1999 to April 2009, Symantec

2070-568: The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. The gift is the second largest to an academic institution—the first being Michael Bloomberg 's $ 1.8 billion gift to Johns Hopkins University . It is the largest gift to Stanford in the university's history. Doerr is a supporter of the Democratic Party and has hosted fundraisers for the party on several occasions. Along with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman , John Doerr

2139-463: The Symantec board, two with immediate effect (including Starboard Managing Member Peter Feld ) and one following the 2018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. On May 9, 2019, Symantec announced that Clark would be stepping down and that board member Rick Hill, previously put forward by Starboard, had been appointed interim president and CEO. Vincent Pilette also joined Symantec as its new CFO. On August 8, 2019, Broadcom announced they would be acquiring

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2208-564: The Turner Hall Card and SQZ!. The popularity of these products, while contributing a relatively small portion of revenues to Symantec, conveyed the impression that Symantec was already a diversified company, and indeed, many industry participants were under the impression that Symantec had acquired Turner Hall Publishing. In 1987, Byers recruited Ted Schlein into the Turner Hall Product Group to assist in building

2277-483: The U.S. offices of the new, combined software company. As a result of this merger, Symantec includes storage- and availability-related products in its portfolio, namely Veritas File System (VxFS), Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR), Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), NetBackup (NBU), Backup Exec (BE) and Enterprise Vault (EV). On January 29, 2016, Symantec sold Veritas to The Carlyle Group . On August 16, 2005, Symantec acquired Sygate ,

2346-405: The United States. Turner named it Six Pack because employees were to work six days a week, see six dealerships per day, train six sales representatives per store and stay with friends free or at Motel 6 . Simultaneously, a promotion was run jointly with SofSell (which was Symantec's exclusive wholesale distributor in the United States for the first year that Q&A was on the market). This promotion

2415-486: The board of Bono 's ONE campaign to fight global poverty, particularly disease in Africa. His success in venture capital has garnered national attention; he has been listed on Forbes magazine's exclusive " Midas List " and is widely regarded as one of the top technology venture capitalists in the world. Doerr advocates innovation in clean energy technologies to combat climate change and has written and testified on

2484-534: The board of the New Schools Venture Fund, an education reform and charter public schools fund, and TechNet, a policy network of high-tech CEOs advocating education and litigation reform, and policies for the innovation economy . Doerr co-chaired California's Proposition 39 which lowered the threshold to approved school bonds, and Proposition 71 which created $ 3 billion in funding for California research into stem cell therapies. He serves on

2553-586: The card as a standalone product. Turner Hall's third product, also a 1-2-3 add-in was SQZ! a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet compression utility developed by Chris Graham Synex Systems . In the summer of 1986 Eubanks and Turner recruited Tom Byers from Digital Research , to expand the Turner Hall Publishing product family and lead the Turner Hall effort. By the winter of 1986–87, the Turner Hall Publishing division had achieved success with NoteIt,

2622-648: The chairman and the CEO would take zero pay, all vice presidents would take a 50% pay cut, and all other employees' pay was cut by 15%. Two employees were laid off. Eubanks also negotiated a sizable rent reduction on the office space the company had leased in the days of the original Symantec. These expense reductions, combined with strong international sales of Q&A, enabled the company to attain break-even. The significantly increased traction for Q&A from this re-launch grew Symantec's revenues substantially, along with early success for Q&A in international markets (uniquely

2691-506: The company adopted the name Gen Digital. Founded in 1982 by Gary Hendrix with a National Science Foundation grant, Symantec was originally focused on artificial intelligence -related projects, including a database program. Hendrix hired several Stanford University natural language processing researchers as the company's first employees. In 1984, it became clear that the advanced natural language and database system that Symantec had developed could not be ported from DEC minicomputers to

2760-490: The company would separate into two independent publicly traded companies by the end of 2015. Symantec will continue to focus on security, while a new company will be established focusing on information management. Symantec confirmed on January 28, 2015, that the information management business would be called Veritas Technologies Corporation, marking a return of the Veritas name. In August 2015, Symantec agreed to sell Veritas to

2829-487: The company, and indeed funded the losses of some of the product groups that were subsequently acquired. In 1989, Eubanks hired John Laing as VP worldwide sales, and Turner transferred the international division to Laing. Eubanks also recruited Bob Dykes to be executive vice president for operations and finance, in anticipation of the upcoming IPO. On June 23, 1989, Symantec had its IPO. In May 1990, Symantec announced its intent to merge with and acquire Peter Norton Computing ,

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2898-431: The different projects. The structure is quite simple and all the employees reports to one person, what make the situation quite clear however it is not a good solution in terms of knowledge exchange and optimal usage of human resources. In this model there are dedicated managers/leaders for each main specialization, "renting" their people for particular projects led by product/project managers, who formally or informally buy

2967-637: The end of 2015. One company would focus on security, the other on information management . On January 29, 2016, Symantec sold its information-management subsidiary, named Veritas , and which Symantec had acquired in 2004, to The Carlyle Group . On August 8, 2019, Broadcom announced they would be acquiring the Enterprise Security software division of Symantec for $ 10.7 billion. After the acquisition, Symantec became known as NortonLifeLock. After completing its merger with Avast in September 2022,

3036-402: The entire PC Tools brand and offering a non-expiring license to PC Tools Performance Toolkit, PC Tools Registry Mechanic , PC Tools File Recover and PC Tools Privacy Guardian users with an active subscription as of December 4, 2013. On April 18, 2008, Symantec completed the acquisition of AppStream , a nonpublic Palo Alto, California-based provider of endpoint virtualization software. AppStream

3105-476: The long term." In March 2014, Symantec fired Steve Bennett from his CEO position and named Michael Brown as interim president and chief executive. Including the interim CEO, Symantec has had 3 CEOs in less than two years. On September 25, 2014, Symantec announced the appointment of Michael A. Brown as its president and chief executive officer. Brown had served as the company's interim president and chief executive officer since March 20, 2014. Mr. Brown has served as

3174-736: The market and it had the largest market share. AVG product line includes AVG AntiVirus , AVG Internet Security , AVG Secure VPN, AVG PC TuneUp , and AVG Driver Updater. Previously a publicly company in February 2012, it was acquired by Avast in July 2016 for $ 1.3 billion. Avira product line includes Avira Free Security, Avira Internet Security , Avira Prime and Avira Phantom VPN. Other products offered by Gen Digital include CCleaner , Recuva , Speccy , Defraggler , HMA , and SONAR . In 1993, Symantec acquired ACT! from Contact Software International . Symantec sold ACT! to SalesLogix in 1999. At

3243-469: The name Symantec. Eubanks became its chairman, Vern Raburn, the former president of the original Symantec, remained as president of the combined company. The new Symantec combined the file management and word processing functionality that C&E had planned, and added an advanced Natural Language query system (designed by Gary Hendrix and engineered by Dan Gordon) that set new standards for ease of database query and report generation. The natural language system

3312-474: The new TimeLine Product Group , and simultaneously of the Q&A Product Group, and made Tom Byers general manager of the Turner Hall Product Group. Turner continued to build and lead the company's international business and marketing for the whole company. At the TimeLine Product Group, Turner drove strong marketing, promotion and sales programs to accelerate momentum. By 1989 this merger

3381-511: The people and pay for their time. This leads to each private employee having two bosses – the product/project manager and the specialized "resource" manager. On one hand it optimizes the usage of human resources, on the other hand it may give rise to conflicts about which one manager has priority in the structure. There are also a number of variants of these structures, and a number of organizations have this structure spread and split within various departments and units. Software companies may use

3450-654: The position of CEO in August 2016. In November 2016, Symantec announced its intent to acquire identity theft protection company LifeLock for $ 2.3 billion. In August 2017, Symantec announced that it had agreed to sell its business unit that verifies the identity of websites to Thoma Bravo . With this acquisition, Thoma Bravo plans to merge the Symantec business unit with its own web certification company, DigiCert . On January 4, 2018, Symantec and BT (formerly British Telecom) announced their partnership that provides new endpoint security protection. In May 2018, Symantec initiated an internal audit to address concerns raised by

3519-433: The product family and in marketing. Revenues from Q&A, and Symantec's early launch into the international marketplace, combined with Turner Hall Publishing, generated the market presence and scale that enabled Symantec to make its first merger/acquisition, in February 1987, that of Breakthrough Software , maker of the TimeLine project management software for DOS. Because this was the first time that Symantec had acquired

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3588-508: The purchase—by this time the combination of the companies was already complete. Symantec's consumer antivirus and data management utilities are still marketed under the Norton name. At the time of the merger, Symantec had built upon its Turner Hall Publishing presence in the utility market, by introducing Symantec Antivirus for the Macintosh (SAM), and Symantec Utilities for the Macintosh (SUM). These two products were already market leaders on

3657-442: The sense of a stable, long-established, company. Turner Hall Publishing's first offering was Note-It, a notation utility add-in for Lotus 1-2-3, which was developed by David Whitney, and licensed to Symantec. Its second product was the Turner Hall Card, which was a 256k RAM, half slot memory card, initially made to inexpensively increase the available memory for Symantec's flagship product, Q&A. The Turner Hall division also marketed

3726-427: The time it was the world's most popular CRM application for Windows and Macintosh . On December 16, 2004, Veritas and Symantec announced their plans for a merger. With Veritas valued at $ 13.5 billion, it was the largest software industry merger to date. Symantec's shareholders voted to approve the merger on June 24, 2005; the deal closed successfully on July 2, 2005. July 5, 2005, was the first day of business for

3795-566: The topic. In a 2007 TED conference, he cited his daughter's remark, "your generation created this problem, you better fix it", as a call to fight global warming . In 2008, he announced with Steve Jobs the Kleiner Perkins $ 100 million iFund , declaring the iPhone "more important than the personal computer" because "it knows who you are" and "where you are." In April 2010, he along with other iFund members announced an increase in iFund 's value by another $ 100 million, making iFund

3864-493: The viability of the market for Symantec. Turner decided to use the Norton name for obvious reasons, on what became the Norton Antivirus , which Turner and the Norton team launched in 1991. At the time of the merger, Norton revenues were approximately 20 to 25% of the combined entity. By 1993, while being led by Turner, Norton product group revenues had grown to approximately 82% of Symantec's total. At one time Symantec

3933-605: The world's biggest investment pool in the cell phone application industry. He currently serves on the boards of Google , Watershed, Amyris Biotech , Tradesy , ASAPP, and Zynga . Doerr led Kleiner Perkins's $ 150 million investment in Twitter in 2012. In 2013, he invested in DreamBox , which has been acquired by Charter School Growth Fund . He had also funded the initial investments in Bloom Energy Inc . Doerr

4002-601: Was a heavy emphasis placed on making the minimum disruption by Eubanks and Turner. Soon after the acquisition of TimeLine/Breakthrough Software, Eubanks reorganized Symantec, structuring the company around product-centric groups, each having its development, quality assurance, technical support, and product marketing functions, and a general manager with profit and loss responsibility. Sales, finance, and operations were centralized functions that were shared. This structure lent itself well to Symantec's further growth through mergers and acquisitions. Eubanks made Turner general manager of

4071-430: Was acquired to complement Symantec's endpoint management and virtualization portfolio and strategy. Software company There are a number of different types of software companies: Organizing a software company is a very specialized type of management skill, where experienced persons can turn the organizational problem into a unique benefit. For example, having sub-teams spread in different time zones may allow

4140-660: Was also known for its development tools, particularly the THINK Pascal , THINK C , Symantec C++ , Enterprise Developer and Visual Cafe packages that were popular on the Macintosh and IBM PC compatible platforms. These product lines resulted from acquisitions made by the company in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These businesses and the Living Videotext acquisition were consistently unprofitable for Symantec, and these losses diverted expenditures away from both

4209-531: Was appointed a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. Forbes ranked Doerr as the 40th richest person in tech in 2017, and as of August 1, 2023, as the 146th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$ 11.9 billion. Doerr is the author of Measure What Matters,

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4278-834: Was appointed as a member of the USA Economic Recovery Advisory Board by President Barack Obama to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America's economic downturn. Doerr is married to Ann Howland Doerr. They live in Woodside, California , with their two children. In August 2010, they signed the Giving Pledge , a campaign set up by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Warren Buffett to get ultra-high-net-worth individuals to donate their fortunes to charitable causes within their lifetime. In 1997, Doerr

4347-495: Was evident to Turner that NoteIt would confuse the dealer channel if it was launched under the Symantec name because Symantec had built up interest by that stage in Q&A (but not yet shipped it), and because the low price for the utility would not be initially attracted to the dealer channel until demand had been built up. Turner felt that the product should be marketed under a unique brand name. Turner and Gordon E. Eubanks Jr. , then chairman of Symantec Corporation, agreed to form

4416-468: Was led by CEO John W. Thompson , a former VP at IBM. At the time, Thompson was the only African-American leading a major US technology company. He was succeeded in April 2009 by the company's long-time Symantec executive Enrique Salem . Under Salem, Symantec completed the acquisition of Verisign 's Certificate Authority business, dramatically increasing their share of that market. In 2009, Symantec released

4485-599: Was named "The Intelligent Assistant". Turner chose the name of Q&A for Symantec's flagship product, in large part because the name lent itself to use in a short, easily merchandised logo. Brett Walter designed the user interface of Q&A (Brett Walter, director of product management). Q&A was released in November 1985. In 1986, Vern Raburn and Gordon Eubanks swapped roles, and Eubanks became CEO and president of Symantec, while Raburn became its chairman. After this change, Raburn had little involvement with Symantec, and in

4554-782: Was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rice University for his accomplishments in business. In 2009, Doerr was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences . In 2010, Doerr was inducted into the California Hall of Fame . In 2019, Doerr received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement . He is also member of the Global Advisory Board of Khan Academy. On May 4, 2022, Stanford University announced Ann and John Doerr's donation of $ 1.1 billion to establish

4623-587: Was rebranded as a Norton product under the name iAntiVirus, and released to the Mac App Store . Also in 2012, the Norton Partner Portal was relaunched to support sales to consumers throughout the EMEA . Avast product line includes Avast Antivirus , Avast Premium Security, Avast Cleanup , Avast Secure Browser , and Avast SecureLine VPN . As of 2017, it is the most popular antivirus vendor on

4692-428: Was very successful in encouraging dealers to try Q&A. During this time, Symantec was advised by its board members Jim Lally and John Doerr that if it would cut its expenses and grow revenues enough to achieve cash flow break-even, then Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers would back the company in raising more venture capital . To accomplish this, the management team worked out a salary reduction schedule where

4761-405: Was very successful—product group morale was high, TimeLine development continued apace, and the increased sales and marketing efforts applied built the TimeLine into the clear market lead in PC project management software on DOS . Both the Q&A and TimeLine product groups were healthily profitable. The profit stream and merger success set the stage for subsequent merger and acquisition activity by

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