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Arbortext is acquired

6-Jul-2005

Tags: Document Management (ECM), Marketplace at Large, XML

XML editor and tool vendor Arbortext has been acquired by PTC, a maker of "product lifecycle management" software. Though they paid a whopping US$190M for $40M in trailing annual revenues, the deal makes sense for PTC, who can now extend its reach from handling the information around product management to also handling product documentation, which is really where Arbortext excelled. Note that Arbortext has taken to calling itself a "dyanamic enterprise publishing" solution. This is a sexy new analyst label for a category of products once known quaintly as "compound document management," or more recently "component content management," or "structured content management," or just simply "XML content management." Sometimes I think the number of labels assigned by a software segment is inversely proportional to its market size.

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