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market share away from established solutions; both products placed high on PC Data’s
Top Ten list of best-selling software in early 1998.
To identify viruses before they become a problem for customers, we opened new
Symantec AntiVirus Research Centers in the U.S. and Australia. These state-of-the art
facilities are staffed by teams of highly experienced engineers to detect and repair
computer viruses.
Remote Productivity Solutions
In a market in which a large percent of mobile professionals and telecommuters work
significantly more hours while on the road than when in the office, Symantec achieved
a 30% increase in sales in fiscal 1998 and comprised 40% of Company revenues. This
was due largely to the success of our continuing upgrades to the WinFax PRO and
pcANYWHERE product lines.
Internet Tools
The remaining 10% of the Company’s revenues is comprised of our third business unit;
Internet Tools. Symantec’s Java development tools achieved increased revenues over fiscal
1997 with products such as Visual Café for Java, which provides solutions to companies
doing internal development for distributed applications, and Visual Page for Windows,
which provides users with a fast and easy way to move important business documents
and information to the web. Also, in 1997, Visual Café won the prestigious PC Magazine
Technical Excellence Award. For reporting purposes, this business unit also includes
royalties and other products nearing the end of their life cycle.
Symantec is committed to enabling all of our products with web capabilities as part of our
focus on delivering the features our customers are demanding. Users of ACT! 4.0, for
example, can launch links to customer sites from within the program. Norton Utilities users
can download, via our LiveUpdate web service, software drivers that may be missing from
their systems, or which are more current than those they presently have. As an indication of
the popularity of this feature, LiveUpdate requests average over 5.4 million per month.
At the end of the fiscal year, Symantec had a total of five programs in the PC Data Top
Ten list: Norton Uninstall Deluxe, Norton CrashGuard Deluxe, Norton Utilities 3.0, Norton
II