PowerQuest was a

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that produced

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. It was acquired by Symantec in 2003. PowerQuest's market focus was on management of

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, especially

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s and

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. Their products included

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, DriveCopy, Drive Image, and ServerMagic. PowerQuest was started in the basement of Eric J. Ruff in

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. PowerQuest earned Mr. Ruff the 64th spot on the Inc. 500 list in 2000, and earned many awards for being one of the fastest growing software companies in the world.

References

External links

* http://www.powerquest.com/ - Original web site (since replaced by Symantec web site) * (Last

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