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During the dot com boom days, there was a company called Vignette, that was hiring devs to work in Tcl on web app. Might have been work using AOLServer, a web s
by fuzztester 3y ago
During the dot com boom days, there was a company called Vignette, that was hiring devs to work in Tcl on web app. Might have been work using AOLServer, a web server by AOL, that could be programmed in Tcl.
I remember this because I saw their job ad in a newspaper at the time.
I googled a bit and found:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vignette_Corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vignette_Corporation
Ex-CEO (later chairman) became a millionaire. Excerpt from above page:
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In June 1998, Garber hired Greg Peters to succeed him as CEO, and Garber became chairman of the board.[12]
In July 1998, the company launched StoryServer 4, which featured strong support of XML technology.
By December 1998, the company raised an additional $27.5 million in venture capital.[4]
The number of the company's customers rose from 130 in 1998[5] to 700 in 2000.[3]
On February 19, 1999, during the dot-com bubble, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. On the first day of trading, the stock price rose 152%, from $19 to $47.[13]
On February 22, 1999, the company release Vignette Syndication Server.
After the IPO, in 1999, Garber, worth $200 million at the age of 33, sold most of his stock and left the company.[14]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StoryServer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StoryServer
- cmacleod4 3y agoI remember people who worked with StoryServer saying Vignette had made a real mess of the integration with Tcl :-(
- fuzztester 3y agoWow, interesting. Now that I think of it, in those dot-com days, hype was flowing freely from most players' mouths and keyboards.