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Openbravo Acquires Librepos

Librepos' main developer Adrian Romero is joining Openbravo as software architect
By Open Source News
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November 7, 2007 12:00 PM EST
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Openbravo, the open source SMB ERP house, has acquired Librepos (née Tina POS), the open source point-of-sale application vendor on the theory that the retail market is very vulnerable to open source disruption.

Terms were not disclosed. Librepos' main developer Adrian Romero is joining Openbravo as software architect.

Openbravo expects to offer a combined ERP-POS solution to integrate sales numbers, order entries and cash flow.

And Librepos' community will be merged with Openbravo's.

Openbravo's ERP has been downloaded 350,000 times on Sourceforge; Librepos, now Openbravo POS and expected to survive as an open source project, was downloaded 100,000 times since January 2005, they said.

Published November 7, 2007 – Reads 9,380
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