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Symantec chief Thompson to retire
News Symantec chief executive John Thompson [pictured] will retire in the spring, according to a press release from the company on Monday. Thompson, who ran the company for the past 10 years, will continue as a non-executive chairman of the board.
[November 18, 2008, 9:25]
BEIKS Thompson Chain Topics Bible Glossary
Downloads This is a Frank Thompson's 1934 Chain Topics lexicon for BDicty. The Thompson's Chain Topics for Palm OS from Beiks is an excellent addition to the ever growing collection of FREE Bible dictionaries for the specialized BDicty dictionary...
[August 8, 2008, 8:00]
John Thompson: Customers need security know-how
News Chief executive John Thompson has succeeded in transforming Symantec from a seller of PC utilities for the consumer market into a major player in enterprise security software. Government officials, chief executives and consumers need to do more...
[July 22, 2004, 15:20]
BEIKS Thompson Chain Topics Bible Glossary for Palm OS
Downloads This is a free Frank Thompson's 1934 Chain Topics Bible Glossary for Palm OS. Contains 1700 topics in only about 268kB file.BEIKS Dictionary Reader features: Specialized for reference content (dictionaries), resulting in simplified interface...
[December 26, 2003, 6:00]
Symantec brings cloud-based security to Europe
News Symantec will begin rolling out cloud-based security within Europe next year, according to chief executive John Thompson. Thompson said the bulk of Symantec's security, back-up and archiving software would be offered as software-as-a-service (SaaS...
[October 8, 2008, 8:26]
Symantec: Beware the Microsoft 'monoculture'
News Without diversity in security software for Windows, computers running the Microsoft operating system will be sitting ducks, Symantec chief executive John Thompson warns. Ever since Microsoft in 2003 announced it would offer antivirus products...
[May 24, 2006, 17:15]
Red Hat exec resigns just before results
News Red Hat chief financial officer Kevin Thompson will resign, the Linux seller announced on Monday, raising eyebrows three days before its scheduled announcement of quarterly financial results. Thompson is leaving after four years at Red Hat to...
[June 15, 2004, 10:45]
Symantec: 'It's a horrible world out there'
News For Symantec CEO John Thompson, there's always something new to worry about. Since Thompson's arrival from IBM in 1999, the company has more than doubled its revenue in the teeth of an industrywide downturn.
[December 9, 2003, 14:40]
Cloud Computing & The Impact On Digital Forensic Investigations
Blog Comment The current issue (April 2009) of PCPlus magazine has run a 6 page article on Cloud Computing by Jon Thompson. PCPlus states: “Over the past 18 months, Jon Thompson has witnessed the birth of growth of cloud computing and tracked its growth into...
[March 20, 2009, 10:02]
Symantec: Microsoft security lacks innovation
News John Thompson, chief executive of Symantec, told ZDNet.co.uk that Microsoft lacked innovation in devising security products. Microsoft imitates what others are already doing in the industry," said Thompson.
[June 13, 2007, 10:42]
Symantec: Vista is not a security solution
News Coming off a good quarter for Symantec's consumer businesses, chief executive John Thompson warns against viewing Windows Vista as a solution to security woes. Thompson, however, in a recent interview, said his company is fearless, though it may...
[February 20, 2007, 11:25]
Symantec chief tipped for Washington
Blog John Thompson, the outgoing chief exec of Symantec, has been tipped to be Obama's commerce secretary, Reuters reports. Thompson is due to leave Symantec at the beginning of April, which would make the timing just about right.
[January 29, 2009, 16:38]
Symantec chief executive advocates fair play - and Macs
News It doesn't appear that Symantec chief executive John Thompson's next computer will run Windows. We think more people ought to buy them," Thompson said of Apple's Macintosh computers, in response to a question from the audience at the Future in...
[May 16, 2006, 9:20]
Symantec CEO urges shift in security tactics
News Better computer security can be achieved, but it is going to be a mammoth task, according to John Thompson, chief executive of Symantec. The increasing number and sophistication of computer attacks requires that companies, businesspersons and...
[November 20, 2003, 8:50]
Symantec CEO: The future with Veritas
News Symantec's CEO John Thompson is not new to the acquisition game. ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com talked with Thompson to get his thoughts on the merger and the future of Symantec. Since he took the helm of the security software giant, Symantec...
[December 17, 2004, 11:30]
Gartner warns users to avoid NT 5.0 until mid-2000
News In a report entitled, Windows NT v 5.0 Vs Year 2000: Stop Where You Are, senior Gartner analyst, Ed Thompson, warns companies to use common sense and delay installing NT 5.0 until all millennium issues are resolved and "inevitable" NT bugs are fixed.
[March 24, 1998, 13:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It wouldn't be possible to finish the week without a moment's respect for the passing of Hunter S Thompson. Not that we'd have minded some real fireworks and a spectacular psychedelic explosion or two, but there's only room for one Hunter S...
[February 25, 2005, 17:10]
Symantec: Our security savvy will beat Microsoft
News John Thompson vowed the company would put more resources into research and development over the coming the year, speaking to reporters at the Symantec's annual Vision conference in San Francisco. We know more about security than they ever will...
[May 9, 2006, 9:20]
Microsoft security push cost $100m for .Net server alone
News Microsoft's much-publicised security push has cost real money -- $100m of person-hours went into the two-month hiatus in development of .Net server, according to David Thompson, vice president of Microsoft's Windows server products group.
[July 2, 2002, 9:04]
Symantec not threatened by Microsoft
News Company CEO John Thompson, speaking at a keynote speech and roundtable at RSA Conference 2005 in San Francisco, said that Symantec would rely on the capabilities of its products to fend off the challenge.
[February 16, 2005, 12:45]
