Going back to 1998, Symantec was best known for Norton utilities and Norton anti-virus, says Thompson. When he arrived in 1999, right after windows 1998 was launched. Symantec had had a bad series of quarter. In his first 100 days, he looked at the company product portfolio and found products th...
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On Network Association as competition, Thompson thinks that the final chapter on both the companies is not written. However, he does believe that execution at Symantec is better and the customer base is more diverse. While Network Association was capturing the enterprise market, Symantec were co...
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Thompson talks about how Symantec was looking at changing from a software business to a content business. He shares the history about the marriage between Symantec and other companies that they have acquired over the years.
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Amateur hackers are mainly knowledgeable about the windows environment, says Thompson. But professional hackers can hack into anything. Symantec welcomes the giants like Intel and Microsoft into the space. According to Thompson, the Netscape phenomenon was a product of the arrogance of youth tha...
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Thompson says that at Symantec, they measure what matters. Every one at Symantec knows what is being measured and managed and how they should behave in the contest. He stresses that in today’s environment, it is not about managing results but about leading teams across a company. Managing implie...
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Thompson states that a company must never stop spending, even in challenging times. As Symantec entered the challenging 2001, the problem was about the cost of owning and operating the security infrastructure that customers had deployed around the world, he says. Customers had no way to measure ...
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Thompson talks about customers being the main driving force behind the business and business model. He gives examples from Symantec about the need to be close to customers. He also focuses on the need to concentrate on the business needs over the business model.
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Thompson says that is possible to include transaction-based security products, but it is not probable because this would mean working in the domain of the big giants like MS .NET, Sun, Cisco etc. Part of the problem is that security has been an after-thought. In the future, they will become more...
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Returning to talk at Stanford after two years, John Thompson, chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Symantec Corporation, talks about the changes in the technology sector and the enterprise software space.
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John Thompson talks about the key driver at Symantec - product focus.To meet this goal, the enterprise was forced to make difficult decisions, including purging products that were not core to their network-centric vision. The result was that hiring and partner relationships, among other things, ...
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