Commerce One

Commerce One was a pioneering e-commerce company founded in 1994 as DistriVision in Pleasanton, California.^{[citation needed]}

The company was renamed Commerce One in 1997, and went public in 1999. In 2001, the company acquired Veo Systems from Pakistan-born Asim Abdullah for $300 million.

One of the company's technologies was SOX, an XML schema technology that influenced the development of the W3C's XML Schema language.

The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Oct. 6 2004 [1]. In December 2004, a portion of its patent portfolio was sold by a bankruptcy court to JGR Acquisitions, a subsidiary of Novell, Inc., for $15.5 million.[2] The remaining business interests, including all remaining intellectual property rights to the software, together with a patent license from JGR, were sold to new investors that continued to operate the company as Commerce One.

Commerce One formally announced on February 7, 2006, that it had been acquired by Perfect Commerce – a provider of On-Demand Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Solutions and The Open Supplier Network. Commerce One, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Perfect Commerce, LLC, a Virginia Limited Liability Company headquartered in Hampton, Virginia with offices in Kansas City, MO, Las Vegas, NV, Greenville, SC, The Woodlands, TX, and Paris, France.

External links

• From Hot to Scorched at Commerce One
• The fall of Commerce One

This article about an IT-related or software-related company or corporation is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.