On its website, CMS vendor RedDot (now an Open Text subsidiary) points out that 3 years ago we lauded their CMS product for its localization and authoring capabilities.
After acquiring Hummingbird (and therefore Web CMS vendor RedDot), Open Text found itself inconveniently in possession of multiple document management and web content management systems.
Despite predictions of a bidding war between suitors Symphony and Open Text, ECM vendor Hummingbird has evidently signed off on an acquisition by the latter at $27.85 per share, or just 10 cents more per share than the bid that Hummingbird's board urged shareholders to reject a week ago.
Thirty months ago today I criticized Vignette for still running its older V6 CMS on its own website, a year after the company launched its V7 product and two years after acquiring a (rather nice) portal package.
Several major content management vendors recently released their Q1 financials, and the results suggest more of the same: modest revenue growth and slim-to-decent profitability.
A little more than 2 years ago we reported on Vignette liking its old dog food, running its public site on its old, V6 platform (still does: tell-tale URL).