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Ferguson">Charles H. Ferguson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Truck" title="Truck">Truck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">Agriculture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Web_site" class="mw-redirect" title="Web site">Web site</a>, <a href="/wiki/Browser_wars" title="Browser wars">Browser wars</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Corporation">Microsoft Corporation</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Vermeer Technologies Incorporated</b> was a software company founded in 1994 by <a href="/wiki/Charles_H._Ferguson" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles H. Ferguson">Charles H. Ferguson</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Randy_Forgaard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Randy Forgaard (page does not exist)">Randy Forgaard</a>. Its products were a <a href="/wiki/Web_site" class="mw-redirect" title="Web site">Web site</a> development tool, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage" title="Microsoft FrontPage">FrontPage</a>, and a Web server, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Personal_Web_Server" title="Microsoft Personal Web Server">Personal Web Server</a>, which complemented developing in FrontPage. Vermeer launched the initial version of FrontPage on October 2, 1995.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Vermeer was funded by <a href="/wiki/Matrix_Partners" title="Matrix Partners">Matrix Partners</a>, Sigma Partners, and <a href="/wiki/Atlas_Venture" title="Atlas Venture">Atlas Venture</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The company was purchased by <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> for <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US$</a>133 million in January 1996 ($258 million in present-day terms<sup id="cite_ref-inflation-US_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inflation-US-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). Microsoft acquired FrontPage as a new weapon in the <a href="/wiki/Browser_wars" title="Browser wars">browser wars</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The company's birth, development, and sale were the subject of Ferguson's 1999 book, <i>High St@kes, No Prisoners.</i> </p><p>A Harvard Business School case, "Vermeer Technologies (A): A Company is Born" (HBS 9-397-078), described the start of the company. </p><p>Even after Microsoft acquired FrontPage, the software continued to store proprietary configuration settings in directories whose names started with _vti. 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