FatWire Software was a privately held company selling web content management system (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 Open Market's Enterprise web content management assets including Content Server from divine, founded as FutureTense.

• 2004: Launched Content Server 6.0 WCM software

• 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 EMC Corporation 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 digital asset management 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.

Further reading

• Barb Mosher (Feb. 16, 2010) EMC Replaces their WCM with FatWire's Web Experience Management

• Sharon Fisher (Jan. 13, 2010) FatWire introduces WEM framework

• Richard V. Dragan (July 1, 2001) Elegant Content Management, PC Magazine (UpdateEngine5 review)

• Mark Gibbs (January 5, 2004) FatWire serves content big time Network World (covers their product line as of 2004)

References

External links

• Official