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Inktomi Corp - Early History, Expansion

Inktomi Corp. was founded in 1996 by Eric A. Brewer and Paul Gauthier. Just six years later, with annual sales reaching $223.5 million, Inktomi had secured a leading position among search engine technology providers. By 2001, the firm's partner and customer base included the likes of America Online Inc. (AOL), Ameritech, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer Corp., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Nextel Communications, and Yahoo! Inc. Along with its search engine software, Inktomi developed its Traffic Server—software using caching, or storing, technology to speed up the delivery of content on the Web—and also offered various other content networking and wireless solutions that catered to both enterprises and service providers.

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Inktomi Corp - Early History

Brewer, a University of California at Berkeley professor, and Gauthier, a graduate student there, established Inktomi in 1996 while working on Brewer's Ph.D. dissertation. The pair set out to prove that a cluster of desktop computers could be wired together to be as powerful and have the same data-processing capabilities as more expensive supercomputers. To test the theory, they developed s…

Inktomi Corp - Expansion

The firm focused on expansion after the IPO. In September of 1998, Inktomi purchased C2B Technologies, a producer of online shopping comparison software. The acquisition added a third product line to Inktomi's arsenal—Inktomi Shopping Engine—and marked the company's entrance in the growing e-commerce industry. Inktomi also secured lucrative customer contracts with high-…

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