Columbus said this week it plans to utilize its January acquisition of Swedish iStone to take the Infor M3 (Lawson) product line global. The initiative is a major change for Columbus which had concentrated on the Dynamics line and its internally developed Columbus Software.

Columbus has made an offer to buy iStone, a firm based in Sweden with 600 employees that operates globally. It represents a substantial expansion for the Denmark-based Columbus which had 1,200 employees when the first half ended on June 30.