5. 3. 4  Positioning and evolution

The company was founded as Tecnicia in 2001. In 2006, it obtained funding in excess of six million dollars, when it was renamed Openbravo. That same year, it released the source code of the products it develops under free licenses.

In May 2008, the funding round amounted to over twelve million dollars, with investors including Sodena, GIMV, Adara and Amadeus Capital Partners.

Over the years, Openbravo has won several business and free software awards and received grants from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade's PROFIT programme to promote technical research.

Both the company and the user community display a positive trend in development, given that the project is currently one of the twenty-five most active on SourceForge with more than one million cumulative downloads in early 2009.

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For the most active projects on SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week.