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NCompass Labs IncNCompass Labs was a Vancouver-based software company[1] that developed NCompass Resolution,[2] a web content management software package. The company was acquired in 2001 by Microsoft[3] for $36 million.[4] HistoryNCompass Labs was founded by Gerri Sinclair, Kerem Karatal and Kristof Roomp in 1996, who were working at the ExCITE Center,[5] a multimedia research group at Simon Fraser University.[6] The initial product of the company was a plug-in for hosting ActiveX controls in Netscape Navigator named ScriptActive,[7] which was developed in cooperation with Microsoft.[8] The company also developed a plug-in named DocActive, which hosted Microsoft Office documents in Netscape, which was licensed to Microsoft and shipped as part of the Microsoft Office 97 Document Viewer.[9] In 1997 the company changed direction releasing a Microsoft Windows-based content managed product named ActiveEnterprise.[5] Later the name of the product was changed to NCompass Resolution.[2] In 2001 Microsoft purchased the company for approximately $36 million,[10] and re-released NCompass Resolution branded as Microsoft Content Management Server in 2002.[11] References
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