Vermeer Technologies Incorporated

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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.

Vermeer was funded by Sigma Partners and other venture capital firms.

The company was purchased by Microsoft for US$133 million in January of 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.

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