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Commerce One

Overview

Commerce One, Inc.

type	Public
fate	Acquired
foundation	1994
founder	Tom Gonzales Thomas Gonzales Jr.
defunct	February 7, 2006
location	Pleasanton, California
revenue	$401 million (2000)
net income	-$344 million (2000)
assets	$3.070 billion (2000)
equity	$2.799 billion (2000)
num employees	3,766 (2000)
footnotes	‡R1R‡

Commerce One, Inc. was an American company that operated online auctions focused on B2B e-commerce.[2][3] At the peak of the dot-com bubble, the company had a market capitalization of $21.5 billion.[4]

The company's technologies included Schema for Object-Oriented XML (SOX), an XML schema technology that influenced the development of the W3C's XML Schema language and the Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB).

History

The company was founded in 1994 as DistriVision by Tom Gonzales and his son, Thomas Gonzales Jr.[5] It was renamed Commerce One in 1997 after Mark Hoffman became CEO.[4]