Microsoft Merchant Server, released in October 1996,[1][2] was Microsoft's initial foray into e-commerce software, during the boom of Internet business-to-consumer transactions in the 1990s related to the dot-com bubble.
Only one version was shipped, then its technology was folded into Microsoft Site Server 2.0, Commerce Edition.
The technology at the heart of Merchant Server originated at a company named eShop Inc., which Microsoft acquired in June 1996.
[7][citation needed] The custom templating system was thrown out, and the core technology of Merchant Server was converted into COM Objects to be used by Active Server Pages.
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