BVRP Software SA is a Paris-based software company that has purchased American software companies. A 2007 acquisition placed it, according to one report, as then being the sixth largest publisher of consumer software in the United States.

History

''BVRP'' was started in 1984 by "

Bruno Vanryb Bruno Vanryb was the ''BV'' of BVRP, a Paris-based company he co-founded with Roger Politis in 1984. He was a French entrepreneur (1957 - January 12, 2019). He was the founder and former CEO of Avanquest, a worldwide software company. He headed ...

and Roger Politis, sound engineers." The company's first offering was a modem-based business phone number service, "a database program called Directory." When their Paris-based company partnered with

Hayes Microcomputer Products Hayes Microcomputer Products was a U.S.-based manufacturer of modems. The company is well known for the Smartmodem, which introduced a control language for operating the functions of the modem via the serial interface, in contrast to manual operat ...

they increased their range beyond Paris and France "to 62 other countries." Vanryb claimed that French venture capital companies "prefer to invest in bigger companies, they don't like startups" so he turned to U.S. sources, leading to AvanQuest and

VCOM The Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) is a private medical school on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia (VCOM-Virginia), with branch campuses in Spartanburg, South Carolina (VCOM-Carolinas), Auburn, Alabama (VCO ...

Avanquest

Avanquest is a marketing name for PC software such as Avanquest Fix-It Utilities 11 Professional, a collection of optimization tools. In mid 2003 parent company ''BVRP'' expanded the Avanquest identity to be ''Avanquest Global Software Publishing'', which it then used to market in Japan and Spain. With Avanquest's 2007 acquisition of ''Nova Development Corp.'', "a publisher focusing on the consumer market," BVRP's portfolio reportedly became the fifth or sixth largest publisher of consumer software in the United States. In 2019, Avanquest had 83 million euro in revenue ootnotefrom three main segments: * IT security : antivirus, ad blocker, cleaning and optimization tools sold under th
Adaware
brand * PDF : PDF management products grouped under th
SodaPDF
brand * Photo : photo editing software and apps developed under th
InPixio
brand

()

System Commander System Commander (SC for short) is a graphical boot manager/loader software application developed by ''VCOM''. The software allowed for multiple operating systems to be installed onto a machine at once, providing a menu from which the user selec ...

'' was introduced in 1993 by V Communications, sometimes referred to as VCOM. System Commander included '' Partition Commander''. With the 2005 purchase by BVRP of this company, they were able to compete with ''PowerQuest'' (PQ) and its

PartitionMagic PartitionMagic is a utility software program for hard disk drive partitioning originally made by PowerQuest, but subsequently owned by Symantec. As of December 8, 2009, the Symantec website stated that they no longer offer PartitionMagic. The ...

. PQ's bundle of software included ''PQboot'', competing with System Commander. Although PowerQuest was acquired by Symantec, which retired this software in 2009, rather than update it to run under Windows Vista, System Commander and Partition Commander have a market: competitor

Paragon Software Group Paragon Software Group is a German software company that develops hard drive management software, low-level file system drivers and storage technologies. The Smart Handheld Device Division (SHDD) offers multilingual dictionaries, multilingual ha ...

released a major new upgrade in 2015.

References

External links

Official website
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