The project was originated by Jive Software around 2002, partly in order to support their FastPath web-based customer support tool, as Jive Messenger, and renamed to Wildfire in 2005.
该项目由Jive Software于2002年左右发起，部分原因是为了支持FastPath基于Web的客户支持工具，如Jive Messenger，并于2005年更名为Wildfire。