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Weren't they acquired by Motorola?

Yes, after which they announced they were canning their "Atlas" project, which was meant to be an Interface Builder for the web. Motorola decided they wanted to keep the technology in house.

No idea if they ever did anything with it!

Best I can tell, it turned into Google Web Designer!

I'm on the outside, but best I can tell:

- You're thinking of a UI design tool called "Ninja"

- Google purchased Motorola Mobility and the Ninja project got cancelled

- Google launched Google Web Designer, that basically had an almost identical UI. As far as I can tell the internals are different, but probably shared some code or at least design work.

Possibly! The tool was definitely named Atlas when it was going to be an open source tool made by 280 North [1]. But it could have been renamed Ninja after Moto acquired it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/03/atlas-a-visual-ide-f...

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