Geac and JBA Join Forces to Form New ERP Giant
P.J. Jakovljevic - October 5, 1999

Event Summary

The combination of Geac's and JBA's enterprise applications creates the fourth largest business applications vendor in the world after SAP, Oracle and Peoplesoft. The new alliance combines two similarly oriented global businesses that have recently been reorganized to improve a recent streak or poor performance. The new business combines growth, earnings consistency, and world-wide coverage, and is well placed to capitalize on the resumption of growth in the ERP sector that is we predict after year 2000 remediation efforts subside. JBA will become the ERP division of Geac, and will continue to develop, support and sell its own products. The JBA division will also include Geac's Streamline product line, an NT-based ERP mid-market solution. JBA will take over the worldwide management of this business, including development, sales and support...