January 24th, 2010 by Janus Boye
4 Comments| annual report, ektron, fatwire, finance, google, ibm, microsoft cms, sitecore, vignette
I’ve regularly covered annual reports, earnings announcements and other financial news about software vendors. These commentaries tend to stir debate and I am frequently asked why I bother to look behind the numbers. Is it really important?
Many vendors, in particular privately-held US-based ones, don’t publicly release audited numbers. Instead they carefully select a few positive …
May 22nd, 2009 by Janus Boye
1 Comment| consolidation, opentext, vignette
Earlier this month Canadian Enterprise Content Management-vendor Open Text announced their intention to acquire the ailing Texas-based Web CMS vendor Vignette. As one of the granddaddies of Web CMS, Vignette peaked during the .com years and did make a few acquisitions. Despite aggressive and creative marketing including a recent re-positioning as a Web Experience Management …