In the web content management space, acquisitions are a fact of business life. About a third of all leading WCM systems are results of past acquisitions. For example, Adobe acquired content management capabilities through Day Software in 2010. Oracle acquired Fatwire in 2011, as well as Stellent in 2006. OpenText acquired Vignette (2009), and also HummingBird (2006), which already owned RedDot at the time. SDL acquired Alterian (2012) and Tridion (2007). The list goes on, with the most recent example being acquisition of Telerik by a global portfolio software company Progress Software.
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