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1914年6月28日。奥匈帝国皇太子在萨拉热窝被刺。很少人能想到这一事件会直接导致第一次世界大战爆发。33个国家15亿人口卷入战争,死伤3000余万人。温斯顿·丘吉尔在他的《第一次世界大战回忆录》中回忆那时的情景说:“处于灾难边缘的世界显得五彩缤纷。” 2003年2月19日,一家小型的ERP厂商Mapies宣布以3000万美元的价格购并另一家ERP厂商Frontstep。当时并没有人想到,这两家管理软件收入排名均在20名以外的公司的合并,竟是一场行业巨变的序幕。 6月3日,在3年前刚以7.08亿美元购买了荷兰老牌ERP公司Baan的英国自动设备制造商Invensys。宣布以1.35亿美元的价格将Baan转让给Cerberus Capital Management和General Atlantic Partners两家投资者组成的投资集团。这两家投资者随即表示,计划在随后的几个月里把Baan和手上的另一家老牌公司SSA GT合并。这本来也是行业里的一件大事,可是一下就被JDE-仁科-Oracle的连环收购大戏抢走了风头。 不仅如此,如果我们还注意到4月份Siebel遭遇财务困难被迫裁员和5月12公司未能按时提交年报遭纳斯达克摘牌的消息,还有这个行业的新进入者微软公司小步快跑的姿态,心里不免要暗自惊诧一下——明年这个行业会变成什么样子?
June 28, 1914. Crown Prince Austro-Hungarian Empire stabbed in Sarajevo. Few people can think of this incident will directly lead to the outbreak of World War I. The 1.5 billion people in 33 countries are involved in the war, leaving more than 30 million dead and wounded. Winston Churchill, recalling the situation in his memoir of World War I, said: “The world at the brink of disaster looks colorful.” On February 19, 2003, Mapies, a small ERP vendor, announced that 3,000 Million dollars to buy another Frontstep ERP vendors. At that time, no one had thought that the merger of the two management software companies whose revenue rankings were outside the 20 companies was actually a prelude to a huge industry change. On June 3, just 3 years ago, it bought Invensys, a UK-based automatic equipment maker for Baan, the Netherlands-based ERP company, for $ 708 million. Announced the transfer of Baan to the investment group of two investors Cerberus Capital Management and General Atlantic Partners for $ 135 million. The two investors immediately said they plan to merge Baan with another veteran SSA GT in the months to come. This would have been a major event in the industry, but what was JDE-PeopleSoft-Oracle chain took the limelight. Not only that, but if we also noticed Siebel’s financial distress forced layoffs in April and the failure of the company to submit its annual report delisted on the Nasdaq on May 12, Microsoft’s new entrant, Microsoft Corp., Attitude, I must secretly surprised myself - next year, this industry will become like?