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Can someone explain what these two companies do?

laurentb 7y ago
carbonite -> backup solutions, similar to Veeam. OpenText -> Enterprise Document Management system (with all the governance stuff big co's want and then some)
mmsimanga 7y ago
Can't answer fully your question but in 2015 OpenText acquired Actuate a BI and analytics company. It was of interest to me because Actuate at the time was the main contributor to BIRT[0] an Eclipse Foundation project for creating reports. IMHO the best Open Source reporting application. Anyway BIRT has been around for ages and does not seem to have been affected by acquisition. Not much happening there but it was already a mature product. [0]https://www.eclipse.org/birt/ https://www.eclipse.org/birt/
bufferoverflow 7y ago
Carbonite has been a legit backup service, at times very competitive with its pricing. Never heard of OpenText. It's a Canadian enterprise information management (EIM) company. Apparently the largest software company in Canada.
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F147H34D 7y ago
OpenText also acquired Guidance Software a few years ago. They make EnCase which is one of the largest digital forensic software tools utilized for investigations.
- PenguinCoder 7y ago
  And EnCase has promptly gone to shit.
  - F147H34D 7y ago
    Yes, I agree with you on that!
  - jonstewart 7y ago
    I was a developer at Guidance from 2003-2010. I left because the future was easy enough to foresee. There might be one or two developers left at OpenText whom I know, but most have left. It’s all about milking that Enterprise SMS revenue. X-Ways and Magnet are rightfully decimating EnCase’s traditional use in forensics.
eigenvalue 7y ago
Carbonite does enterprise file backup. OpenText is a big software conglomerate that tends to purchase slow-growing or declining (aka, "boring") enterprise software companies and consolidates them, cutting costs and milking the existing customer base for updates and support contracts. Basically they seem to bet on inertia surrounding technology in big companies, which tend not to change things that are working acceptably.
- andrewflnr 7y ago
  So Oracle, but without even having written an interesting database?
  - polar 7y ago
    They had an interesting search engine once. I believe Yahoo! used to use it. https://www.opentext.com/about/history/1991-1994-the-pre-web-years https://www.opentext.com/about/history/1991-1994-the-pre-web...
srhngpr 7y ago
OpenText is one of the original companies in the Enterprise Content Management space [0]. OpenText also acquired, arguably, their biggest competitor Documentum [1] from EMC in 2017. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_content_management#ECM_market_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_content_management#... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentum

carbonite -> backup solutions, similar to Veeam. OpenText -> Enterprise Document Management system (with all the governance stuff big co's want and then some)

mmsimanga 7y ago

Can't answer fully your question but in 2015 OpenText acquired Actuate a BI and analytics company. It was of interest to me because Actuate at the time was the main contributor to BIRT[0] an Eclipse Foundation project for creating reports. IMHO the best Open Source reporting application. Anyway BIRT has been around for ages and does not seem to have been affected by acquisition. Not much happening there but it was already a mature product. [0]https://www.eclipse.org/birt/ https://www.eclipse.org/birt/

bufferoverflow 7y ago

Carbonite has been a legit backup service, at times very competitive with its pricing. Never heard of OpenText. It's a Canadian enterprise information management (EIM) company. Apparently the largest software company in Canada.

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F147H34D 7y ago

OpenText also acquired Guidance Software a few years ago. They make EnCase which is one of the largest digital forensic software tools utilized for investigations.

PenguinCoder 7y ago
And EnCase has promptly gone to shit.
- F147H34D 7y ago
  Yes, I agree with you on that!
- jonstewart 7y ago
  I was a developer at Guidance from 2003-2010. I left because the future was easy enough to foresee. There might be one or two developers left at OpenText whom I know, but most have left. It’s all about milking that Enterprise SMS revenue. X-Ways and Magnet are rightfully decimating EnCase’s traditional use in forensics.

eigenvalue 7y ago

Carbonite does enterprise file backup. OpenText is a big software conglomerate that tends to purchase slow-growing or declining (aka, "boring") enterprise software companies and consolidates them, cutting costs and milking the existing customer base for updates and support contracts. Basically they seem to bet on inertia surrounding technology in big companies, which tend not to change things that are working acceptably.

andrewflnr 7y ago
So Oracle, but without even having written an interesting database?
- polar 7y ago
  They had an interesting search engine once. I believe Yahoo! used to use it. https://www.opentext.com/about/history/1991-1994-the-pre-web-years https://www.opentext.com/about/history/1991-1994-the-pre-web...

srhngpr 7y ago

OpenText is one of the original companies in the Enterprise Content Management space [0]. OpenText also acquired, arguably, their biggest competitor Documentum [1] from EMC in 2017. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_content_management#ECM_market_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_content_management#... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentum