Acquisitions afoot
GCN Tech brief
- By Joab Jackson
- Aug 23, 2006
Your favorite sales reps may be reporting to a different company in the near future.
IBM Corp. (
www.ibm.com) announced that it plans to acquire logistics software provider
MRO Software (www.mro.com). The Defense Department is a big user of MRO's products.
Feeling flush, IBM also set out to acquire enterprise content management software vendor
FileNet Corp. (
www.filenet.com), a company with a large presence in many state and local municipalities. Also on the content management front,
ECM pioneer Open Text Corp. (
www.opentext.com) of Waterloo, Ontario, plans to acquire Canadian cousin
Hummingbird Ltd. (
www.hummingbird.com).
About the Author
Joab Jackson is the senior technology editor for Government Computer News.