Adobe Buys Day Software to Bolster ECM Portfolio

Adobe Systems shelled out $240 million to acquire Day Software Holding, a Swiss developer of enterprise content management software.

by Larry Barrett

July 28, 2010

Adobe Systems this week announced it will pay $240 million to acquire Day Software Holding, a Swiss maker of Web-based enterprise content management (ECM) software applications.

Along with giving Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) customers more options for managing all the digital content floating around their networks, the purchase will give the San Jose, Calif.-based publishing and document management software leader another established installed base of customers to push its ubiquitous Flash, Flex, PDF and LifeCycle applications.

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Larry Barrett is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals.