 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 (merged in 2004 with Serena Software Inc., based in San Mateo, California).High hopes were based on the NetObjects Matrix platform and its possibilities to position NetObjects as a "Business Service Provider".A version for Mac was announced, and a cooperation with IBM Global Services was forged.