In March 2010 it seems like a 100 years has passed since COGITA's founding in 1983 until today -- COGITA is an established manufacturing ERP systems and technologies business based on the Epicor ERP system.

In a 1995 Newsweek article, author Clifford Stoll, revealed well founded scepticism about the promise of the Internet. But every doubt has been answered in the passage of time from 1995 to 2010. Stoll was not to know, for example, that Google, eBay, Torrent, Apple, Alibaba.com, Amazon, Hotmail and other world-changing technologies, and companies, would create BEFORE and AFTER memories for 20th and 21st century dwellers on Planet Earth.

In 1990 COGITA was one of the first companies to print eMail addresses on business cards. People asked us, "What's an eMail address?" That's one of our BEFORE and AFTER memories of the Internet. When our COGITA sales executives sold manufacturing ERP systems, like the QAD Mfg/Pro ERP system or the EPICOR ERP system all documentation and software was delivered using tape-media and printed books. That practice is inconceivable, and wasteful, in today's society. Back in the 1980's COGITA's leadership team bet the company's future on ERP systems for manufacturing and distribution companies. The COGITA leaders believed that remote (now we all know that remote means Internet) communications using modems was future of business and commerce.

COGITA hopes you enjoy the 1995 article from Newsweek. For more information visit the COGITA Newsweek Internet Hype Article.

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