MANUGISTICS GROUP INC
8-K, 2000-12-22
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

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                                    FORM 8-K



                                 CURRENT REPORT
                     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
                         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 22, 2000



                             MANUGISTICS GROUP, INC.
               (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)



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Delaware                                  0-22154                   52-1469385
(STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF           (COMMISSION               (I.R.S. EMPLOYER
INCORPORATION OR ORGANIZATION)            FILE NUMBER)              IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)
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                           2115 East Jefferson Street
                            Rockville, Maryland 20852
              (ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES AND ZIP CODE)


                                 (301) 984-5000
              (REGISTRANT'S TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE)


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ITEM 5.  OTHER EVENTS.

        On December 22, 2000, Manugistics Group, Inc. (the "Company") issued a
press release reporting the completion of its previously announced acquisition
of Talus Solutions, Inc. The Company also announced the appointment of Esther
Dyson as a Class I director of the Company and the appointment of Steven A.
Denning as a Class II directors of the Company. A copy of the press release
appears as Exhibit 99 to this Report and is incorporated herein by reference.

        The Company is also filing the following supplemental information
regarding its new directors and its new executive officer:

        Esther Dyson, 49, is the chairman of EDventure Holdings, a publisher of
computer industry literature and sponsor of national and international computer
industry forums. Ms. Dyson has been the chairman of EDventure Holdings since
1983. She serves on the board of directors of Scala Business Solutions (The
Netherlands), a business software provider, and WPP Group plc, a media
conglomerate, as well as various private Internet and information technology
companies.

        Steven A. Denning, 51, has been the Executive Managing Member of General
Atlantic Partners, LLC, a private equity investment firm focused on Internet and
information technology investments, since 1995. Mr. Denning has been with
General Atlantic Partners, LLC since 1980. He serves on the board of directors
of Eclipsys Corporation, a healthcare information technology company, Exult,
Inc., a web enabled human resources company, EXE Technologies, Inc., a provider
of distribution software for e-commerce companies and Infogrames Inc., a
developer of interactive entertainment software, as well as several private
information technology companies.

        Robert L. Phillips, 45, has been the Company's Senior Vice President,
Chief Technology Officer since December 2000. He had been an employee of Talus
Solutions, Inc. and certain of its predecessors since 1976, serving most
recently as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until December 2000.


ITEM 7.  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.

(c)     The following is filed as an Exhibit to this Report:

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99                   Press Release dated December 22, 2000.
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                                    SIGNATURE


        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Rockville, State of
Maryland, on the 22nd day of December, 2000.


                                             MANUGISTICS GROUP, INC.


                                             By: /s/ Timothy T. Smith
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                                                 Timothy T. Smith
                                                 Senior Vice President and
                                                 General Counsel


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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX



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                          99              Press Release dated December 22, 2000.
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