Tradex Technologies

Tradex Technologies Inc. was an American company in the field of electronic commerce and developed a completely Java-based business-to -business ( B2B) software in the 1990s.

History

Originally the Tradex software from an Internet market place, the Swiss computer manufacturer Dynabit 1995 was produced. In 1996, Daniel Aegerter the company TRADEX Technologies in Tampa, Florida, from his company Dynabit out to promote the development of e- commerce software for various Internet marketplaces.

1999 Tradex was eventually market leader with its product Tradex Commerce Center; the company had six offices in the U.S. and one each in London and Tokyo. The clientele of Tradex included, among other things, American Express, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Chemdex, Metal Site, Electronic Data Systems (EDS ) and Raytheon.

Sale to Ariba

In the wake of the dotcom boom Tradex was first sold in December 1999 for 1.86 billion U.S. dollars to the American company Ariba Inc.. Until completion of the transaction in March 2000, but increased the share price of the merged entity to which the Tradex shareholders were involved and the sale was worth 5.6 billion U.S. dollars eventually. The sale completion in March 2000 was temporally associated with exactly the height of the dot-com bubble and was until 2004 the world's largest corporate takeover in the software industry.