Editing Atex (software) (section)

===1990s===

After nearly two decades of continuous growth, which included the construction of a 1,500 person manufacturing plant in the United States, Atex ran into difficult times at the beginning of the 1990s. Citing the need to refocus on its core business, Kodak sold the technology company <ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19921124&id=iFcxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZqIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2507,4760136|title=Reading Eagle - Google News Archive Search|work=google.com|accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref> to a group of European investors in 1992.  Those investors started the development of Enterprise and Prestige, which were formerly the core of the Atex product portfolio.

The company's investors sought fresh investment in 1995, leading to a takeover by Sysdeco Group AS of Norway.<ref name="Judy Grande">{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100801172913/http://www.naa.org/technews/tn951112/p14sysde.html |archivedate=2010-08-01 |url-status=dead |url=http://www.naa.org/technews/tn951112/p14sysde.html |first=Judy |last=Grande |title=Sysdeco Acquires Two U.S. Vendors |work=naa.org |publisher=Newspaper Association of America}}</ref>

Sysdeco Group bought Atex and a Finnish supplier of editorial and classified systems, and became known as Sysdeco Media. The two acquisitions were not successful and in 1995 Atex was spun off again, becoming Atex Media Solutions,<ref name="editorpublisher19970308_atex">{{ cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1997-03-08_130_10/page/28/mode/2up | title=Systems Vendors' New Year's Changes | magazine=Editor & Publisher | date=8 March 1997 | access-date=2 July 2024 | last1=Rosenberg | first1=Jim | pages=28,30,32–35 }}</ref> retaining its largest shareholder, Norwegian based Kistefos AS.