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In April 1999 the firm, whose stock had doubled in price since December, sold two million additional stock warrants for $34 each to investment dealers, and then offered CAD 235.5 million in cash to buy PC Docs, which had tentatively accepted a lower offer from Hummingbird Communications Ltd.
Finding talented workers had become difficult, and in 2001 Open Text launched a recruiting effort that sought to add 400 new employees to its staff of 1,100.
2002 Centrinity purchase adds FirstClass voice mail, email, fax integration software.
Open Text's largest purchase to date came in October 2003 when a $230 million deal was reached to buy Ixos Software AG of Germany, a document management and email archiving technology firm.
Acquisitions continued in 2003 with business-communications software maker Eloquent, Inc. of California, web portal software company Corechange, Inc. of Massachusetts, and Web content management software maker Gauss Interprise AG of Germany.
In July 2005 President John Shackleton took over as CEO from Tom Jenkins, who would continue to serve as chairman.
OSI’s advocacy has also taken other forms, such as creating the Open Standards Requirements for Software in 2006 and working to push governments to refer to them when doing their own open standards work.
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