ICS Acquires MDLINK from Sirius Computer Solutions

May 1, 2003
JACKSONVILLE, FL& SAN ANTONIO, TX1, 2003)- ICS, Inc., a business partner of J.D. Edwards and developer of the RF-SMART brand of wireless and mobile solutions

JACKSONVILLE, FL& SAN ANTONIO, TX (May 1, 2003)- ICS, Inc., a business partner of J.D. Edwards® and developer of the RF-SMART® brand of wireless and mobile solutions exclusively for J.D. Edwards, today announced that it has acquired MDLINK from Sirius Computer Solutions.

With this acquisition, ICS continues to augment its wireless division's market share and enhances the strategic value of RF-SMART to J.D. Edwards and its worldwide base of customers.

Supporting ICS founder and President Jorge F. Morales' wireless vision, the combined knowledge and expertise of the RF-SMART/MDLINK team will deliver new products and services to meet the growing demand for wireless and mobile solutions while maintaining ICS' market-leading customer support and satisfaction.

Regarding the acquisition Jorge Morales said, "Given our complementary business cultures and knowledge bases, we recognized immediate value in teaming the sales, development, delivery and support arms of RF-SMART and MDLINK into a single organization. This truly represents a win-win situation for RF-SMART and MDLINK employees as well as for J.D. Edwards and our joint customers."

AddedSirius Presidentand CEO Harvey Najim, "Like ICS, our objective is to satisfy the technology and service needs of our customers. To accomplish this while leveraging our position as IBM's largest midrange eServer reseller in the world, we felt that merging MDLINK with RF-SMART would best serve our MDLINK customers while enabling Sirius to focus on serving our J.D. Edwards customers through ouradvanced hardware infrastructure business. I am confident that MDLINK customers will continue to receive exemplary levels of support and service from the newly combined RF-SMART/MDLINK team."