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Great Plains Software, Inc. was an accounting software company located in Fargo, North Dakota, whose products focused on small to medium-sized businesses. [2] It was founded in 1981, [ 3 ] went public in 1997, [ 4 ] and was sold to Microsoft in 2001.
Great Plains has been selling and manufacturing conversions of VW engines since circa 1982. Among their offerings is the Great Plains Type 1 Front Drive engine series. [2] Great Plains also helds the rights to the Sonerai series of aircraft designed by John Monnett until 2015, when they were acquired by Sonerai Works LLC, of Franksville, Wisconsin.
Passport Software, Inc. was founded in 1983 by John Miller, Bob Wall, and Muriel Spencer. As a distributor of RealWorld Accounting Software in the 1980s, Passport developed specialized Unix accounting software. In February, 2000, Great Plains Software purchased RealWorld Corporation. [2] [3] Microsoft purchased Great Plains one year later. [4] [5]
Robert Carpenter is managing director of the Great Plains Mission Acceleration Center in Wichita, which works with the U.S. Department of Defense using local businesses to help improve our ...
The Dakota Gasification Company is a synthetic natural gas producing company founded in 1984 in Beulah, North Dakota, United States. It is an operator of the Great Plains Synfuels Plant. It is an operator of the Great Plains Synfuels Plant.
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (Farmer Jack, Food Basics USA, The Food Emporium, Sav-A-Center, Super Fresh, Waldbaum's) H. H. Gregg Hartz Mountain Industries
Great Planes Model Manufacturing Company of Champaign, Illinois, United States, was a radio-controlled model manufacturer and distributor and a part of Hobbico, ...
After earning his MBA, Burgum moved to Chicago to become a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. [5] In March 1983, Burgum mortgaged $250,000 of farmland to provide the seed capital for accounting software company Great Plains Software in Fargo. [4] He acquired a 2.5% stake in the company, [9] and became its vice president of marketing. [10]