History
The original product, EasyBusiness Systems, was developed for the CP/M operating system in the late seventies. This was ported to MS-DOS and the IBM-PC in the early eighties.
Computer Associates acquired Easy Business Systems on 6 September 1985 and ran it as an independant business unit. Easy Business Systems was renamed Accpac Plus in 1987 with the release of version 5. Accpac became popular in Canada with support of Canadian public accounting firms that would sell and support the software.
The first Windows version, CA-Accpac/2000, was developed in the early 1990s and released in October 1994. The Windows version marked the move to client/server and was developed with all new code developed in COBOL with Computer Associates development tools. These components were eventually redeveloped in C and Visual Basic. In 1996 it was known as Accpac for Windows, then ACCPAC Advantage Series in 2001.
Sage Software acquired Accpac from Computer Associcates in 2004.Sage named it Sage Accpac ERP in 2006, then Sage ERP Accpac in 2009. Sage dropped the Accpac name in 2012 when it was renamed to Sage 300 ERP.
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