Hummingbird Ltd. (previously
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: HUMC,
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: HUM) is a
subsidiary
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of
OpenText
OpenText Corporation (also written ''opentext'') is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management (EIM) software.
OpenText, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario
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and is a provider of enterprise software solutions including Exceed. Initially founded as a consulting business in 1984, Hummingbird moved into the connectivity market. Its enterprise content management (
ECM) solutions focuses on the management of the life cycle of enterprise content.
Hummingbird has 40 offices worldwide. Customers include
IBM,
NASA
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,
Morgan Stanley
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,
Boeing
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,
The Walt Disney Company
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, and The
Government of Canada
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.
History
Hummingbird was one of many vendors of
X server and Unix connectivity solutions for Windows-based computers, with its eXceed product being regarded as "an excellent all-round product" in the form of eXceed/W at version 3.3.3 in one 1994 review. The product provided an X server alongside other traditional TCP/IP-based applications such as FTP and telnet clients, supporting the wide range of TCP/IP stacks available for Windows at that time, requiring a minimum system specification of Windows 3.0 running on an Intel 80286-based PC with 2 MB of RAM. Version 4.0 of eXceed became available in 1994,
and was released for Windows NT in 1995. A survey of the PC X server market by International Data Corporation for 1993 portrayed Hummingbird as the market leader with a reported 32% market share.
Acquisition of PCDOCS was one of the most important steps of the company in the way of formation as an
ECM-oriented company. DOCS Open product of PCDOCS Inc. became Hummingbird DOCSFusion and DM - a part of Hummingbird document management system (a part of Hummingbird Enterprise Suite). The product still exists in Open Text products after rebranding with new name as eDOCS DM. In November 2012 OpenText launched the new v5.3.1 version with full support of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
Mergers, Acquisitions, IPOs
* 1984 - Hummingbird founded.
* 1993 - Completes $45 million
CAD
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IPO
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of
common shares
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in
Canada
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, on the
Toronto Stock Exchange
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.
* 1994 - Completes US$34.5 million additional and secondary offering of common shares on
NASDAQ
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.
* 1995 - Acquires
Beame & Whiteside Software Inc., developer of
NFS products.
* 1996 - Purchased naming rights to the O'Keefe Centre, now known as
Meridian Hall.
* 1997 - Acquires
TN3270
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and normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes. The 3270 was the successor to the IBM 2260 display terminal. Due to the text ...
and
TN5250
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terminal emulation software from
McGill University
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and
PolarSoft Inc. in
Canada
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.
* 1998
** Acquires business intelligence solutions vendor,
Andyne Computing Ltd.
** Acquires
Datenrevision of
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, a software consulting and distribution company.
* 1999
** Acquires
Leonard's Logics SA, of
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, makers of
Genio, a data transformation and exchange tool (
ETL) for deployment of data marts.
** Acquires
PC DOCS Group International
* 2000 - Ventured into
India
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, by tying up with
Dess Computers as its systems integrator for Hummingbird products in India.
* 2000 - Acquires imaging technology from
Diamond Head Software Inc.
* 2001 - Acquires
UK company,
PeopleDoc
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.
* 2003
** Acquires legal practice management firms
LegalKEY Technologies and
Kramer Lee & Associates.
** Acquires
Valid Information Systems.
** Acquires
Key Automation Nederland B.V. and its affiliate
Dispro B.V., distributors and integrators of
document management
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solutions in the
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Benelux
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.
* 2005 - Hummingbird acquires
RedDot Solutions
OpenText Corporation (also written ''opentext'') is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management (EIM) software.
OpenText, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is Canada's fourth-largest software company ...
, rounding out its integrated
ECM offering.
* 2006 - Hummingbird acquired by
Open Text
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for $489 million. Hummingbird informed Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Company that it had lost a piece of equipment—albeit
password
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protected—containing the
unencrypted
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Overview
With the advent of comp ...
personal data (names and
social security numbers
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) of an estimated 1.3 million Texas
student loan
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recipients. The company's board of directors agreed to be sold to
Symphony Technology Group
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Investments
The company has investments in the following companies:
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, but following a hostile bid from
Open Text
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, the board negotiated a deal with its rival and accepted an all-cash US$489 million buy-out from Open Text. Following the close of the deal in October, Open Text announced a 15% global workforce reduction.
* 2008 -
Gold Coast City Council
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rolls Hummingbird out as document management system to 3000+ employees
Products
* 1990 - Hummingbird Basic and Hummingbird QuickScript
* 1994 - Host Explorer
References
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