Vermeer Technologies
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Vermeer Technologies Incorporated was a software company founded in 1994 by Charles H. Ferguson and Randy Forgaard. Its products were a Web site development tool, FrontPage, and a Web server, Personal Web Server, which complemented developing in FrontPage. Vermeer launched the initial version of FrontPage on October 2, 1995.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Vermeer was funded by Matrix Partners, Sigma Partners, and Atlas Venture.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The company was purchased by Microsoft for US$133 million in January 1996 ($Template:Format price in present-day termsTemplate:Inflation-fn). Microsoft acquired FrontPage as a new weapon in the browser wars.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The company's birth, development, and sale were the subject of Ferguson's 1999 book, High St@kes, No Prisoners.
A Harvard Business School case, "Vermeer Technologies (A): A Company is Born" (HBS 9-397-078), described the start of the company.
Even after Microsoft acquired FrontPage, the software continued to store proprietary configuration settings in directories whose names started with _vti. The letters "VTI" stand for Vermeer Technologies, Inc.
References
- Microsoft Press release announcing Vermeer acquisition
- W3C paper on Distributed Web authoring (including timeline)
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