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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 5:12:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox   LAS VEGAS -- JDA Software Group Inc.'s planned $211 million acquisition of struggling Manugistics Group Inc. will touch off a major consolidation of supply chain software providers, a trend in which i2 Technologies Inc. may participate, i2 CEO Michael McGrath said at the company's Planet user conference here this week. But he noted that i2, which in recent quarters has reversed its own four-year string of losses, will be highly selective in executing its own acquisition strategy. "There's going to be a lot happening through consolidation," McGrath said in an interview with Managing Automation. "We have to be bright enough and quick enough to make sure we emerge as the leader after that consolidation. We're looking at acquisition opportunities, but we have to be smart, aggressive, and careful. It's not necessarily whoever acquires the most companies who wins." [Click to continue]  |
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