Distributers don't need massive amounts of square feet to stock digital products. Retailers don't need brick-and-mortar stores to sell them. The entire supply chain for these select items has been permanently dematerialized. The marketplace has been blown to bits.

With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.

The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thinking about disrupting.

The 'adaptive supply chain' has been the buzz over the last few years.

CDC is made up of Pivotal, IMI, which is a supply chain player, and Ross, which is an ERP player. CDC has integrated none of these into a suite. This new entity was going to be made up of all these new pieces, plus Onyx. Our shareholders were going to walk away being a small, minority owner in CDC, as opposed to being 100 percent owners in Onyx, a company that is doing very well right now.

Think of it more as a supply chain preservation instead of a gizmo here or a gizmo there.