John Thompson

Thompson talks about how security is a broad domain of technology, including everything from anti-virus to sophisticated authentication authorization technology. Mid to small businesses pose ...

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 ...

Slow down in capital spending has had a profound effect on the enterprise software companies, says Thompson. Symantec has made tremendous investments to retool infrastructure ...

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 ...

Thompson stresses the need for customer diversity. Software companies that were dependent on Fortune 1000 companies for their business suffered when their niche clients also suffered ...

John Thompson states a company must never stop spending on innovation, even in challenging times. When Symantec's customers had no way to measure the effectiveness ...

Thompson talks about how the most significant event for the security space was not 9/11 but it was 9/18. That is the day a dangerous virus, nimda, ...

We don't use hedging, says Thompson. We have a typical planning process; we assume when we exit a quarter that the dollar will be same ...

Thompson talks about how the cheapest form of growth is organic growth. We will be in the market again soon, he adds.

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 ...

Intrusion detection is the next big opportunity, says Thompson. However, it is 10% the size of the antivirus market, and is therefore relatively small. First generation ...

John Thompson talks about the key driver at Symantec - product focus.To meet this goal, the enterprise was forced to make difficult decisions, including ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...