Private company

FatWire

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FatWire Software was a privately held company selling web content management system (CMS) software. It was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2011, and its products rolled up into Oracle's WebCenter product lines.2 It was founded in 1996.1 It is headquartered in Mineola.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1996Founded1

FatWire Software was a privately held company selling web content management system (CMS) software. It was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2011, and its products rolled up into Oracle's WebCenter product lines.2

The story

1996: Established by Mark Fasciano, Ari Kahn and John Murcott,

2003: Acquired Open Market's Enterprise web content management assets including Content Server from divine, founded as FutureTense.

2004: Launched Content Server 6.0 WCM software

2007: Yogesh Gupta was named president and CEO in August, acquired Infostoria in October, launched their strategy for Web Experience Management in November.

2010: FatWire and EMC Corporation announced a partnership in which EMC will resell FatWire's products as their strategic Web Experience Management solution. In return FatWire acquired the rights to resell EMC's digital asset management software

2011: On June 21, 2011, Oracle announced it was acquiring FatWire Software. In July 2011, Oracle purchased Fatwire for $163 million with the assistance of Bingham McCutchen

2012: In February 2012 Oracle releases Oracle WebCenter 11gR1 (11.1.1.6.0) incorporating WebCenter Sites – the new name for Fatwire Content Server.

From Wikipedia’s article on FatWire, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • software

Listed on Wikidata.1

FatWire's revenue for 2009 has been estimated to be around $40M by Real Story Group.

From Wikipedia’s article on FatWire, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 2011Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1996Founded Founded1

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