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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | computer software |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
Key people | David Gilmour, Founder and CEO |
| Products | KnowledgeMail, ActiveNet, illumio |
Number of employees | 30 (2007) |
| Website | www.tacit.com |
Tacit Software was a company that provided expertise and knowledge search software for enterprises and consumers. It was acquired by Oracle Corp in November 2008, and its assets were rolled into the Oracle Beehive collaboration platform.[1]
Tacit was founded in 1997 as Tacit Knowledge Systems by David Gilmour, the founder of Giga Information Group (now owned by Forrester Research) and was headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.[2]
The company was funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (Steve Jurvetson was a company director), Woodside Fund, Alta Partners and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). In-Q-Tel was also an early investor in the company. The firm was acquired by Oracle in November 2008.
- ^ "Oracle Buys Intellectual Property Assets of Tacit Software". oracle.com. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
- ^ Davidson, Paul. (June 13, 2004) USA Today Tacit Finds Matches in Company E-Mail