PlaceWare

PlaceWare was a provider of web conferencing software founded in 1996 by Xerox engineers Pavel Curtis, Mike Dixon, and David Nichols as a spin-off from Xerox PARC.^[1] Its first product, PlaceWare Auditorium, was rolled out in March 1997, and used by such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and PBS.^[2]

Placeware was acquired by Microsoft in 2003,^[3] and its core product renamed Microsoft Office Live Meeting.

References

1. Trager, Louis (1997-03-27). "Falling into Place". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2013-02-09.
2. Dager, Renee (1997-03-27). "The next seat may be your own in cyberauditorium". PC World. Archived from the original on March 30, 1997. Retrieved 2013-02-09.
3. "PlaceWare, Inc. Announces Its Acquisition by Microsoft Is Complete". Retrieved 2013-02-09.

External links

• Microsoft's current Live Meeting product page
• PlaceWare: Structuring a Xerox Technology Spin-off, a company case study
• PlaceWare at CrunchBase