Infor inherits Geac's solutions and employees

Jan. 6, 2006
Private equity firm Golden Gate Capital has acquired enterprise solution vendor Geac Computer Corp. Ltd. in an all-cash deal valued at $1 billion. Golden

Private equity firm Golden Gate Capital has acquired enterprise solution vendor Geac Computer Corp. Ltd. in an all-cash deal valued at $1 billion. Golden Gate Capital plans to "aggressively support" the Geac business units. Upon completion of the acquisition, Geac will be reorganized into two separate Golden Gate Capital portfolio companies.

As part of the reorganization, rival enterprise solution vendor Infor, also a Golden Gate Capital-funded company, will acquire Geac's enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions — including System21, Runtime, RatioPlan, Streamline, and Management Data. Product support personnel will also move to Infor.

The following scorecard highlights all significant corporate moves in the technology sector since our last update in the October 2005 Logistics Today:

Company/Product

Parent Company

Transaction Type

Adonix

Sage Group

acquisition

Agentrics

GNX/WorldWide Retail Exchange

merger/name change

Capri Corp.

Made2Manage Systems Inc.

acquisition

Checkpoint Systems' Bar Code Systems

SATO International

acquisition

Concentrek Inc.

UTi Worldwide Inc.

acquisition

ConnecTerra

BEA Systems Inc.

acquisition

CRS Retail Systems

Epicor Software Corp.

acquisition

Datasweep Inc.

Rockwell Automation Inc.

acquisition

eBots Inc.

Ultriva Inc.

name change

eCost.com

PFSweb Inc.

acquisition

Freight Logix Inc.

Headwater Technology Solutions Inc.

acquisition

Geac Computer Corp. Ltd.

Golden Gate Capital (Infor)

acquisition

Interchain

Kewill Systems

acquisition

Khimetrics, Inc.

SAP

acquisition

NextLinx Corp.

Management Dynamics Inc.

acquisition

RangeGate Mobile Solutions

RedPrairie Corp.

acquisition

Retail Solutions Inc.

VeriSign Inc.

acquisition

Triversity

SAP

acquisition

Unova Inc.

Intermec Inc.

name change

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