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}}</ref> [[Mitsubishi]] and [[AT&T]] Ventures and the last round by Perseus Capital, L.L.C.
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Also in 1996, NetObjects Fusion won ''[[PC Magazine]]'''s Editors' Choice award. [[CNET]]'s Builder.com elected Samir Arora one of the Web Innovators of 1997,<ref name="INNOVATOR">{{cite web
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| title = Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) Winners 1995–1999
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| title = Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) Winners 1995–1999
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| date = October 30, 2001
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| date = December 1, 1998
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| url = http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22samir+arora%22&OS=%22samir+arora%22&RS=%22samir+arora%22
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| date = October 2, 2007
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| date = July 16–18, 2001
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were made with nearly all the big [[Personal computer|PC]] sellers like [[Dell]] and [[Hewlett-Packard|HP]],<ref name="HP">{{cite web
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}}</ref> and with [[Internet service provider]]s like [[UUNET]], [[Earthlink]] or 1 & 1 ([[Germany]]). The company itself said it licensed the [[Distribution (business)|distribution]] of more than 15 million copies of NetObjects Fusion.
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|url = http://www.serena.com/products/collage/index.html
|title = Serena Collage
|work = Serena Software
|publisher = Serena Software, Inc.
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| url = https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,42537,00.asp
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}}</ref> was started. Subscribing web and online services would help small businesses keep pace with the Internet.<ref name="FT"/> To finance this shift of strategy, the NetObjects Enterprise Division with 40 employees along with two applications, Collage and NetObjects Authoring Suite, was sold for $18 million to UK-based Merant<ref name="Newcomb1">{{cite news
| url = http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/559791
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}}</ref> and a cooperation with IBM Global Services was forged.<ref name="Newcomb2"/><ref name="IBM">{{cite web
| url = http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BB9227F21-D9C9-498F-A2EA-C9694C0B6322%7D&source=blq%2Fyhoo&dist=yhoo&siteid=yhoo
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| date = June 11, 2001
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| title = NetObjects, Inc. announces fourth quarter and fiscal year-end 2000 results
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}}</ref> Tough [[competition]] from [[Microsoft]], [[Macromedia]] and [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]] put pressure on [[market share]] and falling prices of web-design [[Application software|application]]s affected revenues.<ref name="Tristram">{{cite web
| url = http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/pcwk/1410/pcwk0039.html
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}}</ref> Also, long-term revenue effects of bundling deals in the [[software industry]] are controversial.<ref name="Bundling-discussions"/> NetObjects slashed prices for NetObjects Fusion from release 1.0 to release 4.0 by more than 50%. Older versions stayed in distribution for even lower prices. Technical demands for large business web sites changed and required direct access of [[programmer]]s to [[HTML]] [[Source code|code]] — which NetObjects Fusion was not designed for.<ref name="Another-upgrade">{{cite web
| url = http://groups.google.de/group/netobjects.fusion30.gen-discussion-windows/browse_thread/thread/da47321c078354c2/b9212481a8bd5853
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| date = December 9–21, 1998
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}}</ref> Its target market were designers who need complete control over [[page layout]] and a similar [[Graphical user interface|user interface]] as [[desktop publishing]] applications.
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| title = NetObjects, Inc. announces financial results for its first quarter of FY2001
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a result of changing markets, price cuts, strategy shift to Software as a Service. Subscription fees from NetObjects Matrix started coming in but the company faced losses: total revenues for the first three quarters of FY 2001 were $4.22 million, whilst costs were $7.67 million.<ref name="SEC-NetObj-Jun01">{{cite web
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| date = August 14, 2001
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| url = http://ir.web.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=364546
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}}</ref> In May 2009 NetObjects Fusion was sold.<ref name="WEB.COM_SEC_2_2009">{{cite web
| url = http://ir.web.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1144204-09-40519
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}}</ref> The predecessor of this was NetObjects Team Fusion, introduced as a [[client–server]] application in 1998.
* NetObjects Matrix, an online Web builder and Web services tool, invented in 2000, sold to Website Pros in 2001. Website Pros, now [[Web.com]], relied their website building process for customers on the NetObjects MatrixBuilder platform.<ref name=ANNUAL_5>{{cite web | url = http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/WSPI/351433097x0x189105/BED273D3-F558-48EF-9A1B-4248CFBEBEF8/Annual%20Report%20for%20Web.pdf| title = Website Pros Annual Report 2007, pgs. 15, 21 | publisher = Website Pros |
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