FatWire Software was a

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selling web

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(CMS) software. It was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2011, and its products rolled up into Oracle's WebCenter product lines.

History

* 1996: Established by Mark Fasciano, Ari Kahn and John Murcott, * 2003: Acquired

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's Enterprise web content management assets including Content Server from

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, founded as FutureTense. * 2004: Launched Content Server 6.0 WCM

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* 2007: Yogesh Gupta was named president and CEO in August, acquired Infostoria in October, launched their strategy for Web Experience Management in November. * 2010: FatWire and

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announced a partnership in which EMC will resell FatWire's products as their strategic Web Experience Management solution. In return FatWire acquired the rights to resell EMC's

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software * 2011: On June 21, 2011, Oracle announced it was acquiring FatWire Software. In July 2011, Oracle purchased Fatwire for $163 million with the assistance of Bingham McCutchen * 2012: In February 2012 Oracle releases Oracle WebCenter 11gR1 (11.1.1.6.0) incorporating WebCenter Sites – the new name for Fatwire Content Server.

Market

FatWire's revenue for 2009 has been estimated to be around $40M by Real Story Group.Would EMC really buy FatWire?
, Real Story Group

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External links

Official FatWire website
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