written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . december 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs to be updated . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . august 2016 hummingbird a division of open text type subsidiary of public company industry computer software fate acquired by open text corporation founded toronto ontario 1984 headquarters toronto ontario canada key people barry litwin fred sorkin chairman of the board revenue 236.1 million usd 2005 1 net income 22.36 million usd 2005 1 number of employees 1500 2005 1 website www.hummingbird.com hummingbird ltd. previously nasdaq humc tsx hum is a subsidiary of opentext and is a provider of enterprise software solutions including exceed . initially founded as a consulting business in 1984 hummingbird moved into the connectivity market . its enterprise content management ecm solutions focuses on the management of the life cycle of enterprise content . hummingbird has 40 offices worldwide . customers include ibm nasa morgan stanley boeing the walt disney company and the government of canada citation needed . contents 1 history 2 management 3 references 4 external links history edit acquisition of pcdocs was one of the most important steps of the company in the way of formation as an ecm oriented company clarification needed . docs open product of pcdocs inc. became hummingbird docsfusion and dm a part of hummingbird document management system a part of hummingbird enterprise suite . the product still exists in open text products after rebranding with new name as edocs dm . in november 2012 opentext launched the new v5 .3.1 version with full support of windows 8 and windows server 2012 . 1984 hummingbird founded . 1993 completes 45 million cad ipo of common shares in canada on the toronto stock exchange . 1994 completes us 34.5 million additional and secondary offering of common shares on nasdaq . 1995 acquires beame & whiteside software inc. developer of nfs products . 1996 purchased naming rights to the o keefe centre now known as sony centre for the arts . 1997 acquires tn3270 and tn5250 terminal emulation software from mcgill university and polarsoft inc. in canada . 1998 acquires business intelligence solutions vendor andyne computing ltd. acquires datenrevision of hamburg germany a software consulting and distribution company . 1999 acquires leonard s logics sa of paris france makers of genio a data transformation and exchange tool etl for deployment of data marts . acquires pc docs group international 2000 ventured into india by tying up with dess computers as its systems integrator for hummingbird products in india . 2 2000 acquires imaging technology from diamond head software inc. 2001 acquires uk company peopledoc . 2003 acquires legal practice management firms legalkey technologies and kramer lee & associates . acquires valid information systems . acquires key automation nederland b.v. and its affiliate dispro b.v. distributors and integrators of document management solutions in the netherlands and benelux . 2005 hummingbird acquires reddot solutions rounding out its integrated ecm offering . 2006 hummingbird acquired by open text for 489 million . hummingbird informed texas guaranteed student loan company that it had lost a piece of equipment albeit password protected containing the unencrypted personal data names and social security numbers of an estimated 1.3 million texas student loan recipients . 3 the company s board of directors agreed to be sold to symphony technology group but following a hostile bid from open text 4 the board negotiated a deal with its rival and accepted an all cash 489 million usd buy out from open text . 5 following the close of the deal in october open text announced a 15 % global workforce reduction . 6 2008 gold coast city council rolls hummingbird out as document management system to 3000 employees management edit the following were directors at the time of the sale to open text fred sorkin chairman of the board alan barry litwin corporate director john t. mclennan independent director andrew j. malik managing director lehman brothers inc. mark d. spitzer independent director inder p.s. duggal corporate director stephen a. crane chairman and chief executive officer alphastar insurance group limited jack langer independent director references edit a b c hummingbird 2005 annual report pdf . retrieved 2006 08 05 . srinivasan priya 2000 05 17 . dess tech hummingbird in pact for product installation . express india . retrieved 2000 05 18 . check date values in access date help tg announces contractor s loss of borrower files . 2006 05 30 . retrieved 2006 08 05 . open text launches rival bid for hummingbird . cbc news . 2006 07 06 . retrieved 2006 07 07 . avery simon 2006 08 04 . hummingbird okays open text bid . globe and mail . retrieved 2006 08 05 . king danny 2006 10 16 . open text to cut 500 jobs after buying hummingbird . bloomberg.com . retrieved 2006 10 19 . external links edit official website article about the sale of terminal emulator by mcgill retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hummingbird ltd. & oldid 737028200 categories software companies of canadadefunct software companies of canadahidden categories cs1 errors datesarticles with a promotional tone from december 2015all articles with a promotional tonewikipedia articles in need of updating from august 2016all wikipedia articles in need of updatingpages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from december 2015wikipedia articles needing clarification from december 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view 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