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OpenText to acquire IXOS

21-Oct-2003

Tags: Document Management (ECM), Web Content and Experience Management, Marketplace at Large, Selecting Technology,

The race to create behemoth ECM companies continues. This time, OpenText reaches across the Atlantic to snap up German DM/WCM vendor IXOS. IXOS bought Swiss CMS vendor Obtree last year to give it a small toe-hold in the Web Content Management space. This aquisition makes OpenText appear bigger at a time when software vendors are desparately looking to scale, but we wonder about the overlap with another recent OpenText morsel -- Gauss -- and note that the former Obtree (now IXOS) CMS product is unlikely to gain much traction in North America...
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