Openbravo ERP Passes 500,000 Downloads

-Users love open source ERP; downloaded by half-a-million users on SourceForge, the leading open source software development and community site –

Openbravo, the leading developer of web-based open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Point of Sale (PoS) solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has surpassed 500,000 downloads on SourceForge.net for its ERP software.

With over 160,000 projects and over one million registered users hosted on it, SourceForge.net is the world’s largest open source software development web site. Users are provided with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code.

Openbravo’s leading open source ERP solution was first published to SourceForge in April 2006. Rapidly gaining momentum, the software quickly rose to the top of its category. By August 2006, release 2.11 of Openbravo ERP dominated the ERP category on SourceForge.

Just three months later, Openbravo v2.13 became SourceForge’s top-ranked project out of a field of almost 160,000 projects posted on the site. Since then, Openbravo has remained in the top ten projects across all software categories and has averaged over 1,000 downloads per day.

As a result of Openbravo’s increasing success, SourceForge named Openbravo ERP the Project of the Month in September 2007.

Openbravo’s POS, which Openbravo acquired as Librepos in October 2007, is successful as well, with over 100,000 downloads on SourceForge and is the leading open source POS solution. The acquisition grew Openbravo’s product line and strengthened its positioning in the retail and hospitality segments.

Manel Sarasa, CEO of Openbravo said, “Having achieved this milestone on Valentine’s Day displays that our community loves Openbravo and we love our community. Half-a-million downloads is an important milestone that demonstrates the word-of-mouth support our community has given our product, and we are looking forward to hitting the one million mark.”

About Openbravo

Openbravo ERP is the leading professional open source enterprise management (ERP) solution for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs). Driven by open source philosophies and best-in-class services, it delivers a fully integrated, web-based ERP system tailored to the needs of any company, regardless of size or industry sector. The functionality of Openbravo ERP is in continual growth thanks to an expanding international community of users, partners and developers. Openbravo ERP helps companies to manage daily operations, optimize business processes, enhance customer satisfaction and ultimately increase profitability. And because it is open source, Openbravo ERP puts the customer in full control without the overheads of contracts or licenses. In January 2006, Openbravo secured a €5 million ($6.4m) financing agreement with Sodena – record funding for an open source ERP company – to fuel further software development and international growth. Openbravo is a winner of a 2007 ‘Red Herring 100 Europe Award’. At LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in August 2007, Openbravo was presented with a Product Excellence Award for ‘Best Integration Solution’. In September 2007, the company’s ERP solution was declared the ‘Best of Open Source Software’ by InfoWorld in the 2007 BOSSIE Awards. In January 2008, Openbravo was selected as a winner of the European Open Source Business Awards.

In October 2007, Openbravo acquired Librepos, formerly Tina POS, the leading open source POS solution. The newly renamed Openbravo POS is a point-of-sales application designed for touch screens. It supports ESC/POS ticket printers, customer displays and barcode scanners. It can support single and multiple users and has a strong back-office including product entry form, reporting and easy-to-read charts. Openbravo POS is integrated with Openbravo ERP and is also available as a standalone product.

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