Microsoft Corporation acquired Vermeer Technologies Inc., a transaction announced in January 1996.
Vermeer Technologies Inc. operates in Internet tools (FrontPage web publishing), is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Vermeer Technologies Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a pioneer of visual, standards-based web-publishing software; its flagship product, FrontPage, let people create and manage rich web sites without programming. Microsoft acquired Vermeer to make FrontPage a cornerstone of its web-authoring strategy for both the internet and corporate intranets.
Acquire a leading no-code web-authoring tool to give Microsoft a full range of web-publishing products.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.