To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2446 ) 9/22/1998 2:42:00 PM From: esecurities(tm) Respond to of 4231
Interleaf on [web doc] acquisition trail?...acquires PDR Automated SystemsAcquisition Enhances Support for Content Management Solutions WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1998--"Interleaf, Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAF - news) today announced it has acquired PDR Automated Systems and Publications, Inc. (PDR), a technical documentation services company with principal offices in Massachusetts, California and North Carolina. The PDR acquisition will allow Interleaf to offer its current and prospective customers consulting and technical documentation services that leverage Interleaf's market-leading complex publishing system Interleaf 5 (I5) and Interleaf 6 (I6). With annual revenues over $6 million in 1998, PDR provides Fortune 1000 companies with product communication services, including: technical documentation, training development, multimedia product marketing materials, and Web and electronic conversion services...As one of the originators of the complex publishing market, Interleaf has a 15-year track record of delivering successful corporate publishing solutions. With over two million users worldwide, Interleaf has a proven record in understanding business processes, such as how to collect and capture data, and improving these processes with commercial solutions that capture information - for ease of processing - and in publication tools that optimize content reuse while ensuring widespread availability in multiple mediums - from paper output to the Web...''Many organizations today are looking for solutions rather than tools, especially when evaluating emerging technology areas like XML-based content management,'' stated Jaime Ellertson, Interleaf's President and CEO. ''PDR increases Interleaf's bandwidth to apply our powerful products to solve customer-specific business problems..." source: © 1998 biz.yahoo.com Panorama CD Web et al softquad.com certainly come to mind