NCompass Labs Inc explained

NCompass Labs was a Vancouver-based software company[1] that developed NCompass Resolution,[2] a web content management software package. The company was acquired in 2001 by Microsoft[3] for $36 million.[4]

History

NCompass Labs was founded by Gerri Sinclair, Kerem Karatal and Kristof Roomp in 1996, who were working at the ExCITE Center,[5] a multimedia research group at Simon Fraser University.[6]

The initial product of the company was a plug-in for hosting ActiveX controls in Netscape Navigator named ScriptActive,[7] which was developed in cooperation with Microsoft.[8] The company also developed a plug-in named DocActive, which hosted Microsoft Office documents in Netscape, which was licensed to Microsoft and shipped as part of the Microsoft Office 97 Document Viewer.[9]

In 1997 the company changed direction releasing a Microsoft Windows-based content managed product named ActiveEnterprise. Later the name of the product was changed to NCompass Resolution.[2]

In 2001 Microsoft purchased the company for approximately $36 million,[10] and re-released NCompass Resolution branded as Microsoft Content Management Server in 2002.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Company Overview of NCompass Labs, Inc.. www.bloomberg.com. 2019-01-25.
  2. Web site: NCompass Labs Launches Resolution 3.0. www.infotoday.com. 2019-01-25.
  3. Web site: Microsoft to Acquire NCompass Labs. 2001-04-30. Stories. en-US. 2019-01-25.
  4. Web site: Microsoft to acquire NCompass Labs. Tarsala. Mike. MarketWatch. en-US. 2019-01-25.
  5. Web site: NCompass Labs Inc. Secures U.S. $8.5 Million in Second Round Venture Financing; Latest Funding Round Catapults Start-up Into Forefront of Intranet Market. - Free Online Library. www.thefreelibrary.com. 2019-01-25.
  6. Web site: About the ExCITE center. 1998-05-22. www.excite.sfu.ca. https://web.archive.org/web/19980522214823/http://www.excite.sfu.ca/aboutus/framesets/frm_abt.html. 1998-05-22. 2019-01-25.
  7. Book: Lomax, Paul. Learning VBScript. 1997. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". 9781565922471. en.
  8. Web site: Upgrading an Existing ActiveX Control. mikeblome. docs.microsoft.com. en-us. 2019-01-25.
  9. Book: InfoWorld. 1996-10-14. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.. en.
  10. Web site: Microsoft buys business software maker NCompass. CNET. en. 2019-01-25.
  11. Web site: Microsoft to Acquire NCompass Labs. 2001-04-30. Microsoft. en-US. 2019-01-25.

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