OpenText: IGC Joins Nstein and BRS
January 6, 2015
I read a news release with the click bait free headline “Open Text Acquires Informative Graphics Corporation.” I quite like that “informative graphics” idea. Quite a few graphics I see are not informative. Graphics are eye candy for some folks like generals and admiral giving briefings to the denizens of the Pentagon and White House. Graphics are useful in Hollywood. Where would commercials be without After Effects?
OpenText is a mash up of content centric businesses. Somewhere deep in the company is the original Tim Bray SGML data management system. The remnants of his pre-sell out search system are probably chugging along as well. OpenText owns content management companies, indexing companies, and search and retrieval companies. OpenText owns Fulcrum and that late 1980s systems is still in use, which is not too surprising. OpenText offers BRS, an older information retrieval software, BASIS (also an old school system with search functionality), and other interesting technologies like content management software.
The new purchase, according to the news release, “strengthens its capabilities for secure access to any content, on any device, on premises and in the cloud.”
IGC was an OpenText partner. IGC offers products and services that seem to overlap with OpenText’s. My hunch is that OpenText bought a partner who could make sales.
Stephen E Arnold, January 6, 2015
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