PDF-related news breaks out at Acrobat conference: Merger of Appligent and Document Solutions
At the tail end of the Thursday morning keynote presentation at the Adobe Acrobat & PDF Central Conference, the microphone was passed to Duff Johnson of Document Solutions, Inc., to make a brief announcement. Johnson, with a widely respected expertise in PDF conversion, document scanning and management, PDF standards and compliance, and accessibility, is one of the handful of expert speakers at the Minneapolis event.
He officially announced to conference attendees what he’d already revealed a day earlier in an e-mailed news release (and in retrospect, by his conspicuous presence in the Appligent trade show booth here earlier in the day) and in his PDF Perspectives blog at AcrobatUsers.com, and which we discussed a bit further during breakfast at nearby (and highly recommended) Hell’s Kitchen this morning: His company is merging with Appligent, another well-regarded, long-time vendor in the Acrobat and PDF marketplace. Based in Pennsylvania, Appligent has a solid reputation within the PDF ecosystem, offering a range of products and services. The new company — for which Johnson becomes CEO — will be called Appligent Document Solutions; he will remain based in the Boston area. Appligent’s Virginia Gavin will be the President and Chief Operations Officer (COO) and Mark Gavin will be the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
At this week’s conference, Johnson is leading breakout sessions on “PDF Meets Accessibility and Section 508″ and “PDF as Rapid Application Development Platform.”
Full details of the merger are available in a posted news release. [PDF: 130 kb]
