NCompass Labs Inc

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]

References
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  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. "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.
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  8. mikeblome. "Upgrading an Existing ActiveX Control". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
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