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FatWire buys local wiki vendor

01-Nov-2007   --  

Earlier this week Long Island, NY-based Web CMS vendor FatWire announced that it has acquired Infostoria, a Long Island-based wiki vendor.

Also on Long Island is Computer Associates, and while Inforstoria was only a tiny start-up with 12 employees, it was founded by CA alumni. Among the CA alumni is also FatWire's relatively new CEO Yogesh Gupta, who came onboard in August.

The last time FatWire completed an acquisition, it was from bankrupt vendor divine, where FatWire bought its current flagship product Content Server. It seems unlikely that this acquisition will have the same impact.

Nevertheless, this news would confirm that wikis are very hot these days, with the major MOSS 2007 wiki integration news being only a week old. Where most Web CMS vendors (e.g. Microsoft, Stellent) have built their own wiki functionality, FatWire may have taken a short-cut with this acquisition. To me though it seems rather hard to fit a wiki into FatWire's traditional emphasis on persuasive content and object-oriented content management, but perhaps more change is coming for FatWire?

- Submitted by: Janus Boye, Guest Analyst - Twitter: janusboye

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