Who Belongs to Whom?

--- News on the Software Industry
Evelyn Woldman, Education Director, MESPA Technology Center

To say the field of software companies has been fluid over the last year would be a great understatement -- there has been a virtual "flood" of changes. Here are some of them:

LARGE ACQUISITIONS
-- Riverdeep is one of the fastest growing companies in the United States today. Among the acquisitions in the last few years to the Riverdeep family are the following:
1. Destination Math
2. LOGAL
3. Edmark
4. Vantage Points Language Arts
5. Smartstuff (publishers of Foolproof Software)
6. Teacher Universe
7. Learning Company

Scholastic has acquired:
Grolier Interactive
Tom Snyder Productions

Vivendi/Universal has acquired:
Sunburst Technology
Houghton Mifflin
Knowledge Adventure

SMALLER ACQUISITIONS
Discis Software was acquired by Harmony Interactive
Forest Technologies was acquired by Quickmind