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

EMC Corporation Dell EMC (EMC Corporation until 2016) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and Round Rock, Texas, United States. Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud ...

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 of 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.

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

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Official FatWire website
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