excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% For $260 million, Kodak enters imaging softwar... Summary: For $260 million, Kodak enters imaging software with a bang. By Bruce Hoard, IW executive editor Industry watchers largely agree that Kodak's $260 million purchase of Wang's software business is money well spent. In addition, Yockelson believes Kodak is better positioned to make the software business a success than was Wang. "Kodak is emotionally committed to the technology, where Wang was... 95% It's a done deal Eastman Software is born Summary: Eastman Software is born. MA) software business. The new unit will serve as a separate subsidiary under Kodak's Business Imaging Systems organization, bearing the name Eastman Software. "Eastman Software is a dumb name, especially when you consider that one of the world's most highly recognized brand names was available," said IDC's (Framingham, MA) Gerry Murray. Kodak has acquired Wang... 94% Eastman Software is born Summary: (Posted: Friday, April 4, 1997, 8:24 AM) After years of speculation, months of anticipation and weeks of negotiation, Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY) has completed the acquisition of Wang's (Billerica, MA) software business. 94% Kodak acquiring Wang Software Summary: Kodak acquiring Wang Software.kodak.com) and Wang (Billerica, MA, http://www.wang. Kodak will pay $260 million cash for Wang's software business. 94% Tucci says no to Novell Summary: Tucci says no to Novell. Wang (Billerica, MA) CEO Joseph Tucci was handed an $8 million thank you note from his board of directors following the $260 million sale of Wang's software unit to Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY). Under the premise of a "retention bonus" because Tucci declined an offer to head Novell (Orem, UT), Wang acknowledges Tucci's role in the recent divestiture. Analysts speculate... 93% Wang CEO awarded $8 million to stay Summary: Wang CEO awarded $8 million to stay.wang.com). Under the premise of a "retention bonus" because Tucci declined an offer to head Novell (Orem, UT, http://www.com), Wang acknowledges Tucci's role in the recent divestiture. 93% Kodak and Wang in final negotiations Summary: Kodak and Wang in final negotiations. The Boston Globe, which first announced the pending deal, reports Wang is holding out for several hundred million dollars. The combined revenue of those businesses was $624 million in the fiscal year that ended in June and they accounted for nearly 60% of Wang's total sales. According to IDC, Kodak would benefit from the acquisition if it could migrate its... 93% Kodak set to buy Wang's software Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996 Kodak set to buy Wang's software. For Kodak, it's a missing piece, for Wang it's $$$ and focus. On the other hand, he continued, "Kodak may be offering a reasonable sum, which Wang can then turnaround and subsequently complete an acquisition of its own." David Yockelson, director of the Meta Group is skeptical, and hopes Kodak holds its offer below $200 million.... 91% Wang solid results outweigh criticism Summary: Imaging World, January 1st, 1997. Or will it be getting a marginal software player that has created an overblown image of itself? It can make the money now, or make the money later. Does Wang have a history of producing solid imaging and workflow products? According to him, "Wang has built a software business out of a couple of patents. 91% First in line for Kodak's COM customers Summary: First in line for Kodak's COM customers.kodak.com) computer output microfilm (COM) customers. In addition, First Image and Kodak will develop new integrated document management services and technologies. Kodak will provide hardware, software, media and related services to First Image clients. 91% Desktop document imaging comes of age Summary: Wang and Visioneer. Wang (Billerica, MA) and Visioneer (Palo Alto, CA) have announced an agreement that will bring together Wang's imaging software and Visioneer's leading desktop paper-scanning PaperPort. The agreement will provide users of Windows 95 with tools for transforming and managing paper documents as digitized images. By the end of the year, support for PaperPort will be added to... 90% Wang takes a Vantage Summary: Wang takes a Vantage. Wang's Service Business Unit will continue to partner with PC Docs, providing services to DOCS Open software customers. But everyone thought it would be PC Docs." "Wang got the technology they were after," said Frappaolo, "and they got a vendor strong in the standards arena." Standards-based Wang is committed to open architecture. 90% 50 who make a difference Summary: Delphi Consulting Group. Imerge Consulting. Wang. Arthur Gingrande, IMERGE Consulting 13. William Stratigos, Wang 40. 89% Wang's NT software sees first major update Summary: Wang's NT software sees first major update.com) has enhanced the NT versions of its document imaging and work management software. Wang estimates that sales of its NT-based Open/image and Open/workflow software account for nearly 60% of it's total production software revenues. "Sales of our Windows NT-based image and workflow products have exceeded our expectations" said Bob Weiler, president of... 89% Wang is no lame duck Although the presence of ... Summary: Imaging World, March 17th, 1997. Wang is no lame duck. Although the presence of Kodak is expected to be felt at AIIM, Wang's software unit will still be owned by Wang and could have a hard time not coming off as a lame duck, given the impending acquisition by Kodak. At any rate, Wang will be demonstrating its newly released Imaging for Windows Professional Edition as well as its other imaging... 89% 40 companies to watch in 1997 Summary: They are: R.E. Ray Edwards, Apex D.E. Dan Elam, IMERGE B. T.S. Robert Smallwood, Image Associates S. 88% Weighing in on NT Summary: However, I do not think this is a bad position for NT to be in." "The missing pieces are 32-bit applications. She is willing to speculate, though: "Would I develop a mission-critical document management application on NT? Enterprisewide implementations take longer. Silver agrees: "I don't think that NT is shifting down. 86% 1996 the year in products Summary: From 1996 we've chosen a dozen (or so) products that burned brightly. Imagination Software (Silver Spring, MD) was another vendor embracing ActiveX in '96. A late-year hardware introduction (also by Kofax) was a product standout in 1996. Still, he sees production imaging's dominance continuing in the coming year. That, she points out, "is sort of dichotomous." 86% The Buzz 3-17-97 Summary: Don't shrink-wrap workflow management. "Workflow management can't be shrink-wrapped," he says. Document Manager, the Web-based document management groupware package that was scheduled for release Feb. The aforementioned Ian Campbell agrees, saying, "Document management and groupware are coming together. Campbell also has some interesting thoughts on the "dark side" of document management. 86% Gulf War declassification project puts USIraq... Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996. Gulf War declassification project. puts US/Iraqi records on the Web. After the images have been through those devices, they go through an image enhancement solution that does the cropping and deskewing. He or she cleans up the image by further despeckling and deskewing.
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