“We will support what they bought and keep the price the same.”

“Hightail created a very strong product, but they are a small company which made it hard for them to go after the enterprise,” says Savinay Berry vice president, products and engineering at OpenText.īerry says that OpenText’s ownership of Hightail will not disrupt its 5.5 million users. make annotations directly on visual files and comment in-context) on large files while managing flow and control. Yet when the leadership of YouSendIt recognized that it was in danger of becoming yet another Enterprise File Sync and Share vendor whose service was quickly becoming commoditized, it pivoted to meet the highly specialized needs of creative professionals who not only need to share content, but also to collaborate(e.g. The latter was initially created to help users share files that were too big for e-mail, then later added features that met business needs. Most anyone who has shopped for an Enterprise File Sync and Share solution over the last dozen years probably knows of either Hightail, or its predecessor YouSendIt. Not only that, but OpenText’s deep pockets provide the resources that Hightail needed to deliver best-in-class content collaboration related solutions to marketing, advertising and creative professionals.

Hightail brings a number of new, high leverage opportunities to users of OpenText Documentum, Content Server, Core and Media Management. Barrenechea, OpenText vice chairman, CEO and CTO, did not use the phrase to announce his company’s acquisition of Hightail last month.

It seems that almost any time one tech company acquires another, smiling CEOs are cited in press releases talking about how their products are “better together.” Think Microsoft and LinkedIn, Zillow and Truvia, Hotwire and Eastwick to name just a few.

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