Eci Acquires Digital Gateway: Good For The Industry?

Posted by Tom Callinan on Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Last week ECi announced the acquisition of the last independent industry specific ERP, Digital Gateway (DGI). It appears as if this acquisition has caught many by surprise as DGI’s outspoken CEO, Jim Phillips, has told anybody who would listen that he would never sell out (That infamous “read my lips” mantra that seems to be followed in history by the exact opposite event). Jim’s reasoning seemed to be founded on his belief that being an independent software provider was good for the independent dealer.

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911

Posted by Tom Callinan on Friday, September 9, 2011

It started out as just another Tuesday; I had my reservation at the Times Square Hilton and I was on the bus from South Jersey to Manhattan. For the last three years I had been commuting into Manhattan to my job as president of IKON’s NYC Marketplace. I was fortunate; IKON had agreed to foot the bill for me to stay in the city whenever I wanted, so I didn’t need to endure the four-hour daily commute like most on the bus. Unless you’ve experienced the bus commute to Manhattan you’d never be able to imagine that it is actually a community unto itself.

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