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Day Software AG was a Swiss company that created the underlying technology of Adobe Experience Manager.[1]

History[]

The predecessor to the company was founded in 1993 as Bidule AG in Basel, Switzerland.[2][3] On August 13, 1999, Bidule merged with Day Interactive Switzerland AG to form the Day Group.[4] Day's primary product, Communiqué ("CQ") was based on its ContentBus architecture and was launched in early 2000 as a set of CGI scripts for Netscape Enterprise Server.[1]

Acquisition by Adobe[]

Day Communiqué CQ5 logo

Logo of Day CQ5

After CQ 5.3 had been released,[1] Adobe Systems announced that it would acquire Day Software Holding AG for US$240 million (CHF255 million).[5] The acquisition was completed on October 29, 2010.[6] Communiqué was briefly rebranded as Adobe CQ,[7] and then became Adobe Experience Manager.[8]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Adobe AEM History by Ankur Ahlawat, AEM CQ5 Tutorials. 2016-12-06.
  2. Bidule Wins SME-Entrepreneur-Award, Day Software. 1998-12-10. Archived 2001-03-07.
  3. Day Software, Crunchbase. Accessed 2020-01-11.
  4. Bidule Becomes Day: The First Swiss Web Business with a Global Position, Day Software. 1999-08-13. Archived 2001-03-06.
  5. Adobe to Acquire Day Software, Adobe Systems. 2010-07-28. Archived 2010-07-30.
  6. Adobe Successfully Completes Acquisition of Day Software, Adobe Systems. 2010-10-29. Archived 2017-06-25.
  7. Adobe CQ, Adobe Systems. Archived 2012-06-27.
  8. Got an HTTP 301 response at crawl time | Redirecting to..., Adobe Systems. Archived 2013-03-07.

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