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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Nasdaq: INKT | |
| Founded | January 1996[1] |
| Founder | Eric Brewer[1] Paul Gauthier[1] |
| Fate | Acquired by Yahoo! |
| Headquarters | Foster City, California[1] |
Key people | David C. Peterschmidt[2] (Chairman & CEO) |
| Revenue |  $112 million (2002) |
| -$500 million (2002) | |
| Total assets | $145 million (2002) |
| Total equity | $46 million (2002) |
Number of employees | 200 (November 2002) |
| Footnotes / references [3] | |
Inktomi Corporation was an American Internet service provider (ISP) software developer based in Foster City, California. Customers included Microsoft, HotBot, Amazon.com, eBay, and Walmart.[3]
The company developed Traffic Server, a proxy server web cache for World Wide Web traffic and on-demand streaming media which transcoded images down to a smaller size for users of dial-up Internet access. Traffic Server was deployed by several large ISPs including AOL.[4]
In 2003, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the company was acquired by Yahoo! for $241 million.
The company's name, pronounced "INK-tuh-me", was derived from a Lakota legend about the trickster spider Iktomi, known for his ability to outsmart larger adversaries.[1] The tri-color nested cube logo was created by Tom Lamar in 1996.
- ^ a b c d e "Inktomi Corporation Formed by UC Berkeley Scientists to Bring Parallel Processing Power to Commercial Internet Applications". Business Insider. May 20, 1996.
- ^ Tessler, Joelle (March 8, 1999). "Inktomi CEO Looks to Sell 'Arms' To Range of ISPs and Portal Sites". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ a b "Inktomi Corporation 2002 Form 10-K Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- ^ FISHER, LAWRENCE M. (April 17, 2000). "2 Companies Take Separate Paths To Speed Delivery of Web Pages". The New York Times.