Commerce One

[2][3] At the peak of the dot-com bubble, the company had a market capitalization of $21.5 billion.

[5][1] In January 1999, the company acquired Veo Systems from Asim Abdullah for $300 million.

[8] In July 1999, on its first trading day after its initial public offering, the company's stock price rose 190%.

[1] In 2001, co-founder Thomas Gonzales Jr. died of a rare cancer at age 35 and left his stake in the company in a trust to help the needy.

[4][12] In December 2004, a portion of the company's patent portfolio was sold to JGR Acquisitions, a subsidiary of Novell, for $15.5 million and the remainder of the company was sold to ComVest Partners for $4.1 million.