NCompass Labs Inc

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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. [5] 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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Company Overview of NCompass Labs, Inc". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  2. 1 2 "NCompass Labs Launches Resolution 3.0". www.infotoday.com. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  3. ↑ "Microsoft to Acquire NCompass Labs". Stories. 2001-04-30. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  4. ↑ Tarsala, Mike. "Microsoft to acquire NCompass Labs". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  5. 1 2 "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. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  6. ↑ "About the ExCITE center". www.excite.sfu.ca. 1998-05-22. Archived from the original on 1998-05-22. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  7. ↑ Lomax, Paul (1997). Learning VBScript. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN   9781565922471.
  8. ↑ mikeblome. "Upgrading an Existing ActiveX Control". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  9. ↑ InfoWorld. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. 1996-10-14.
  10. ↑ "Microsoft buys business software maker NCompass". CNET. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  11. ↑ "Microsoft to Acquire NCompass Labs". Microsoft. 2001-04-30. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
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