Re: Baan to be merged with SSA-GT

[Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another pair of news stories about the changing face of our major vendors.

PeopleSoft Buying J.D. Edwards
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TYR/message/12788
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many J.D. Edwards customers still run applications on the AS/400, while 
PeopleSoft applications are geared toward the WebSphere environment.
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http://www.internetweek.com/supplyChain/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10100746

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TYR/message/12786
IBM is being investigated by the SEC for its accounting practices, I say IT 
IS ABOUT TIME, and I wish Dean was still around to enjoy this story.
I recognize that this might hurt my investment in IBM stock, but it should 
help the customers a whole lot more.  I would never turn IBM in, but I am 
glad someone else did.
Reuters http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4913-2003Jun2.html

> >From the latest issue of Supply Chain Systems Magazine:
>
> Baan Sold <http://www.scs-mag.com/news/2003/06_03/0604/baan/index.htm>
> Baan, a major player in the ERP/supply chain software industry, has been
> purchased from Invensys by a venture capitalist group led by General
> Atlantic Partners and Cerebus Capital Management. The $135 million sale will
> be followed by the merging of Baan with SSA Global Technologies-another
> property already owned by the venture capital group-pushing the latter,
> analysts say, into the number four position within the ERP market.
>
> Bill
>
> William D. Smith
> bill9899@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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