A copy of the
Weidner Multi-Lingual Word Processing software was requested by the German Government for the
Siemens Corporation of Germany in September 1980 and was nicknamed the Siemens-Weidner Engine (originally English-German). This revolutionary multilingual word processing engine became foundational in the development of the Metal MT project, according to John White of the Siemens Corporation. After the Metal MT, development Rights to the Siemens-Weidner Engine were sold to a Belgium company,
Lernout & Hauspie. The
Siemens copy of the
Weidner Multilingual Word Processing software has since been acquired through the purchase of assets of
Lernout & Hauspie by Bowne Global Solutions, Inc., which was later acquired by
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. and is demonstrated in their itranslator software. ==References==