Open Text™ Corporation, a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, and Hummingbird Ltd. announced that they have closed the transaction pursuant to which all of Hummingbird’s common shares were acquired by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Open Text.

Open Text, through its wholly owned subsidiary 6575064 Canada Inc. acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Hummingbird. The transaction was completed pursuant to a plan of arrangement under section 192 of the Canada Business Corporations Act and an arrangement agreement made as of August 4, 2006, which was amended on September 19, 2006, among 6575064 Canada Inc., Open Text and Hummingbird.

About Open Text

Open Text™ is a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Today, the company supports approximately 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide. For more information on Open Text, go to www.opentext.com.

What does this merger mean for your business?

Open Text will continue supporting and developing all previous Hummingbird products, which have been rebranded to better fit the Open Text LiveLink product family. The rebranded product names are shown below:

Old Hummingbird Name	New OpenText Name
Hummingbird Enterprise - KM	Livelink ECM - eDOCS KM
Hummingbird SearchServer	Livelink ECM - eDOCS SearchServer
Hummingbird Enterprise Suite	Livelink ECM - eDOCS Suite
Hummingbird Enterprise - DM	Livelink ECM - eDOCS DM
	more information
Hummingbird Enterprise - Collaboration	Livelink ECM - eDOCS Collaboration
Hummingbird Enterprise - Enterprise Workflow	Livelink ECM - eDOCS Workflow
Hummingbird Enterprise - Mobility	Livelink ECM - eDOCS Mobility
Hummingbird Enterprise - IM	Livelink ECM - eDOCS IM
Hummingbird Enterprise for Contract Management	Livelink ECM - eDOCS for Contract Management
Hummingbird Enterprise for Correspondence Management	Livelink ECM - eDOCS for Correspondence Management
Hummingbird Enterprise - R/KYV	Livelink ECM - eDOCS R/KYV
Hummingbird DOCS Open	Livelink ECM - DOCS Open
Hummingbird Enterprise - RM	Livelink ECM - eDOCS RM
	more information
Hummingbird BI	Livelink ECM - Business Intelligence
RedDot	RedDot
Hummingbird eDOCS for Microsoft Sharepoint	Livelink ECM - eDOCS for Microsoft Sharepoint
Hummingbird Integration Suite (Genio /Met@Data)	Livelink ECM - Data Integration
Hummingbird Enterprise - Enterprise Webtop	Livelink ECM - eDOCS Webtop
Hummingbird Enterprise for ESRI	Livelink ECM - eDOCS for ESRI

ExKnow will continue supporting all your previous Hummingbird investments and will offer consulting and services for the new Open Text product portfolio as well. If you have any questions about the new Open Text product family and how to implement them in your organization, don't hesitate to contact us!