Dateline: November 14, 1997

MFP technology developer JetFax (Menlo Park, CA) to acquire document management software developer DocuMagix (San Jose)

NexGen SI (Irvine, CA) to deliver document management and warehousing solutions to car manufacturer Nissan Motor Corporation USA

Legato Systems (Palo Alto, CA) forms new business unit to provide storage management solutions to government agencies and systems integrators

INSCI's (Westborough, MA) Coinserv for Windows NT COLD solution now available on Unisys' (Blue Bell, PA) Aquanta and Clearpath servers

Utilities to spend $900 million to $1.3 billion over the next five years on IT software and services, according to a report from utility research and information company Warren B. Causey (Kennesaw, GA)

Datawatch (Wilmington, MA) unveils the Redwing plug-in for Adobe (San Jose) Acrobat that extracts text and tables from PDF files

Net-It Software (San Francisco) wins Crossroads A-list award for its Net-It Central document management software solution

Vangard Technology (Englewood, CO) names Calvin Andre as its new president and CEO

Oracle (Redwood Shores, CA) and Micron Electronics (Nampa, ID) announce an agreement to pre-install Data Servers database management systems on Micron servers

Scangraphics (Broomall, PA) posts Q3 '97 financial results: revenue down 4% from Q3 '96, net loss of $2,341,000 compares with a Q3 '96 net loss of $594,000

Mitek (San Diego) reports Q4 '97 net sales of $1,164,000, down 49% from Q4 '96; net loss of $1,048,000 compares with a Q4 '96 net income of $483,000

Open Text (Waterloo, Ontario) to provide document management and workflow solutions to Lasmo plc, a UK-based oil and gas exploration and production company

Sutmyn America (Santa Clara, CA) to integrate EMASS' (Englewood, CO) automated mixed-media storage libraries with its Library Management Software syste