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OpenText Acquires Bluebird Systems

On October 25, 2000, OpenText acquired software company Bluebird Systems

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is OpenText’s 4th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is OpenText’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is OpenText’s 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2000-10-25
Target Bluebird Systems
Sector Software
Buyer(s) OpenText
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Bluebird Systems

Carlsbad, California, United States
Bluebird Systems develops and markets an integrated family of server components used to capture, index, secure, archive, distribute, and manage unstructured digital data and documents.

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Buyer

OpenText

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Category Company
Founded 1991
Sector Software
Employees21,400
Revenue 5.2B USD (2025)
DESCRIPTION

OpenText is an independent software provider of enterprise information management (EIM). Open Text was founded in 1991 and is based in Waterloo, Ontario.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 45
Sector: Software M&A 4 of 21
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 36
State: California M&A 1 of 8
Country: United States M&A 3 of 32
Year: 2000 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1999-09-20 Microstar Software

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Microstar Software Ltd. is a provider of structured information management solutions comprised of technology and services for Global 2000 companies. These solutions enable Microstar’s customers to effectively and economically create, manage and distribute their corporate knowledge assets. The company is recognized for its innovative standards-based solutions based on SGML and XML.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-11-22 LeadingSide - Product Businesses

United States

LeadingSide - Product Businesses provides e-business solutions and specializes in knowledge-driven solutions for a variety of applications such as Publishing, Corporate Portals, Corporate Intranets, and Knowledge Management systems.

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