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Commerce One

Commerce One, Inc. was an American company that operated online auctions focused on B2B e-commerce. At the peak of the dot-com bubble in 2000, the company had a market capitalization of $21.5 billion; it was liquidated in 2004 for less than $20 million, a 99.9% decline. 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).

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Article summary

Commerce One, Inc. was an American company that operated online auctions focused on B2B e-commerce. At the peak of the dot-com bubble in 2000, the company had a market capitalization of $21.5 billion; it was liquidated in 2004 for less than $20 million, a 99.9% decline. 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).

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 1994 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. employees: 400 employees — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1994". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the employees is "400 employees". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359409015

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.