Vermeer Technologies

Vermeer Technologies Incorporated was a software company founded in 1994 by Charles H. Ferguson and Randy Forgaard. Its only product was FrontPage, a website/webpage development tool. They launched the initial version of FrontPage on October 2, 1995.

Vermeer was funded by Matrix Partners, Sigma Partners, and Atlas Venture.

The company was purchased by Microsoft for US$133 million in January 1996 in order to acquire FrontPage as a new weapon in the browser wars.

The company's birth, development and sale was the subject of Ferguson's 1999 book High St@kes, No Prisoners.

The start of the company was described in a Harvard Business School case : "Vermeer Technologies (A): A Company is Born" (HBS 9-397-078)

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