Comments on: Musings on Possible Autonomy OpenText Acquisition

By: Lee Dallas

Lee Dallas — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:19:46 +0000

Purple? – really? How cool would that be. My favorite book is Dr.Seuss “If I Ran The Zoo” – I play the same game where I work but can’t always write about it

By: Cheryl O'Neill

Cheryl O'Neill — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:14:38 +0000

It’s fun to see what you guys think “we” might do. I wonder if Lubor turned purple at the thought of the acquisition.

By: Lee Dallas

Lee Dallas — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:17:21 +0000

About a year ago there was a lively discussion around all of these companies. Interesting to see how positions have (and have not) changed in a year.

By: Acquisition Fever « Word of Pie

Acquisition Fever « Word of Pie — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:31:10 +0000

[...] is a RUMOR that has been gaining traction. It is an interesting one though for a few reasons, not the least of it would be the reversal [...]

By: Lee Dallas

Lee Dallas — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:18:16 +0000

I can see StoredIQ – fits into their other eDiscovery wants and wishes but given they just acquired tech in that space from CA i am not sure this is as attractive at the moment.

MarkLogic ? I think someone will snap them up – either IBM or SDL but I don’t see where they are as good of a fit into the overall autonomy mix.

By: Marko Sillanpää

Marko Sillanpää — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:14:40 +0000

I’m not sure Open Text or SDL makes sense. I would think that even Autonomy with its muli-platform approach wouldn’t go down the duplicate competing platform path like Open Text has and would bring with them. SDL at the end of the day is a services company that happens to have products. I have never heard of a deal where they have sold in and not bundled their translation services. But Kofax is a different story. It fits well with their approach to offer market leading point solutions. I offer another candidate, StoredIQ. If you look at Autonomy’s acquisition of Zantaz for email archiving but they’re still missing the eDiscovery piece. StoredIQ would add this to their mix. Another hole in Autonomy’s platform is true Business Process Management. Cardiff only goes so far, they need business process modeling and analysis. Then there’s XML. Interwoven’s not enough here. I see MarkLogic as a candidate. My bet is Autonomy’s starting a buying cycle and the prime targets are MarkLogic, StoredIQ, Kofax, and a BPM vendor.