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<field name="name">New Hardware Integration</field>
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<field name="name">Touchscreen Point of Sale for 6.1</field>
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<field name="name">Sorry SAP Campaign - The Making Of</field>
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<field name="website_meta_keywords">Point of Sale, Hardware, Interface, Payment Terminal, Store</field>
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<field name="website_meta_description">Point of Sale with no installation required that runs online and offline.</field>
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<![CDATA[<p>The brand new OpenERP touchscreen point of sale is available with 6.1 which allows you
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to manage your shop sales very easily. It's fully web based so that you don't
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have to install or deploy any software and all the sales shops can be easily
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consolidated. It works in connected and disconnected modes so that you can
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continue to sell even if you lose your internet connection.</p>
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<img src="http://www.openerp.com/sites/default/files/fileattach/POS(2).png" alt="">
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<h3>Here's a summary of its main features and benefits:</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>100% WEB based</li>
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<li>available for any touchscreen device (ipod, ipad, any tablet)mobile (with portable devices)</li>
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<li>no installation required</li>
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<li>no synchronization needed, completely integrated</li>
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<li>continue working even when your connection is down or if you close your browser, data won't be lost</li>
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<li>fully web based with a clean interface smart interface</li>
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</ul>
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<p>You have different options to select your products. You can do it through the
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barcode reader, just browse through the categories you have put in place (ie.
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drinks, snacks, meals, etc.), or text search in case neither of the other
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options work for you. For example, if you need to use the POS for your restaurant,
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your employees can record multiple tickets at the same time without having to wait
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to process one transaction at a time. In addition, you can facilitate payments,
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the application allows multiple payment methods.</p>
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<p>The POS application is so simple and accessible to use that your shop or
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restaurant will never need any other tool to manage orders. Due to its smart
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and user-friendly interface you don't need any training to learn how to use it.
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Think of it as an out-of-the-box solution to boost your business' productivity.
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</p>
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]]>
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<field name="website_meta_keywords">OpenERP, News, Sorry SAP</field>
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<field name="website_meta_description">Sorry SAP Campaign - The Making Of</field>
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<field name="content"><![CDATA[
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<section data-snippet-id="text" class="readable">
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<div class="container">
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<p>I needed to change the world. I wanted to ... You know how it
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is when you are young; you have big dreams, a lot of energy
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and naïve stupidity. My dream was to lead the enterprise
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management market with a fully open source software. (I also
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wanted to get 100 employees before 30 years old with a
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self-financed company but I failed this one by a few months).
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</p>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section data-snippet-id="text-image" class="readable">
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<div class="container">
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<p>To fuel my motivation, I had to pick someone to fight
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against. In business, it's like a playground. When you arrive in
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a new school, if you want to quickly become the leader, you must
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choose the class bully, the older guy who terrorises small boys,
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and kick his butt in front of everyone. That was my strategy
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with SAP, the enterprise software giant.</p>
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<p>So, in 2005, I started to develop the TinyERP product, the
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software that (at least in my mind) would change the enterprise
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world. While preparing for the "day of the fight" in 2006, I
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bought the SorrySAP.com domain name. I put it on hold for 6
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years, waiting for the right moment to use it. I thought it
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would take 3 years to deprecate a 77 billion dollars company
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just because open source is so cool. Sometimes it's better for
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your self-motivation not to face reality...</p>
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<p>To make things happen, I worked hard, very hard. I worked 13
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hours a day, 7 days a week, with no vacations for 7 years.I
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lost friendships and broke up with my girlfriend in the process
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(fortunately, I found a more valuable wife now. I will explain
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later why she is worth 1 million EUR :).</p>
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<p>Three years later, I discovered you can't change the world
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if you are "tiny". Especially if the United States is part of
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this world, where it's better to be a BigERP, rather than a
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TinyERP. Can you imagine how small you feel in front of Danone's
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directors asking; "but why should we pay millions of dollars
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for a tiny software?" So, we renamed TinyERP to OpenERP.</p>
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<p>As we worked hard, things started to evolve. We were
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developing dozens of modules for OpenERP, the open source
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community was growing and I was even able to pay all employees'
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salaries at the end of the month without fear (which was a
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situation I struggled with for 4 years).</p>
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<p>In 2010, we had a 100+ employees company selling services on
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OpenERP and a powerful but ugly product. This is what happens
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when delivering services to customers distracts you from
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building an exceptional product.</p>
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<p>It was time to do a pivot in the business model.</p>
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<h3>The Pivot</h3>
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<p>We wanted to switch from a service company to a software
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publisher company. This would allow to increase our efforts in
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our research and development activities. As a result, we
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changed our business model and decided to stop our services to
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customers and focus on building a strong partner network and
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maintenance offer. This would cost money, so I had to raise a
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few million euros.</p>
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<p>After a few months of pitching investors, I got roughly 10
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LOI from different VCs. We chosed Sofinnova Partners, the
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biggest European VC, and Xavier Niel the founder of Iliad, the
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only company in France funded in the past 10 years to have
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reached the 1 billion euro valuation.</p>
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<p>I signed the LOI. I didn't realize that this contract could
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have turned me into a homeless person. (I already had a dog,
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all I needed was to lose a lot of money to become homeless).
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The fund raising was based on a company valuation but there
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was a financial mechanism to re-evaluate the company up by
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9.8 m€ depending on the turnover of the next 4 years. I should
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have received warrants convertible into shares if we achieved
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the turnover targeted in the business plan.</p>
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<p>The night before receiving the warrants in front of the
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notary, my wife checked the contracts. She asked me what would
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be the taxation on these warrants. I rang the lawyer and guess
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what? Belgium is probably the only country in the world where
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you have to pay taxes on warrants when you receive them, even
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if you never reach the conditions to convert them into shares.
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If I had accepted these warrants, I would have had to pay a
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12.5% tax on 9.8 m€; resulting in a tax of 1.2m€ to pay in 18
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months! So, my wife is worth 1.2 million EUR. I would have
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ended up a homeless person without her, as I still did not
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have a salary at that time.</p>
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<p>We changed the deal and I got the 3 million EUR. It allowed
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me to recruit a rocking management team.</p>
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<img class="img-responsive shadow" src="/website/static/src/img/OpemERP_board.jpg"/>
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<h3 class="mt16">Being a mature company<h3>
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<p>With this money in our bank account, we boosted two
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departments: R&D and Sales. We burned two million EUR in 18 months,
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mostly in salaries. The company started to grow even faster.
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We developed a partner network of 500 partners in 100 countries
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and we started to sign contracts with 6 zeros.</p>
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<p>Then, things became different. You know, tedious things like
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handling human resources, board meetings, dealing with big
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customer contracts, traveling to launch international
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subsidiaries. We did boring stuff like budgets, career paths,
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management meetings, etc.</p>
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<p>2011 was a complex year. We did not meet our expectations:
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we only achieved 70% of the forecasted sales budget. Our
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management meetings were tense. We under performed. We were not
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satisfied with ourselves. We had a constant feeling that we
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missed something. It's a strange feeling to build extraordinary
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things but to not be proud of ourselves.</p>
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<p>But one day, someone (I don't remember who, I have a
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goldfish memory) made a graph of the monthly turnover of the
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past 2 years. It was like waking up from a nighmare. In fact,
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it was not that bad, we had multiplied by 10 the monthly turnover
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over the span of roughly two years! This is when we understood
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that OpenERP is a marathon, not a sprint. Only 100% growth a
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year is ok... if you can keep the rhythm for several years.</p>
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<img class="img-responsive shadow" src="/website/static/src/img/turnover_updated.png"/>
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<p class="text-center" section_inner="1">
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<strong>OpenERP Monthly Turnover</strong></p>
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<p>As usual, I should have listened to my wife. She is way more
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lucid than I am. Every week I complained to her "it's not good
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enough, we should grow faster, what am I missing?" and she used
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to reply; "But you already are the fastest growing company in
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Belgium!". (Deloitte awarded us as the fastest growing company
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of Belgium with 1549% growth of the turnover between 2007 and
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2011)</p>
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<h3 class="mt16">Changing the world</h3>
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<p>Then, the dream started to become reality. We started to get
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clues that what we did would change the world:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>With 1.000 installations per day, we became the most
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installed management software in the world,</li>
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<li>Analysts from Big 4 started to prefer OpenERP over SAP,</li>
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<li>OpenERP is now a compulsory subject for the
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baccalaureate in France like Word, Excel and Powerpoint</li>
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<li>60 new modules are released every month (we became the
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wikipedia of the management software thanks to our strong
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community)</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Something is happening... And it's big!</p>
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<p>OpenERP 7.0 is about to be released and I know you will be
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astonished by it.</p>
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<p>The official release is planned for the 21th of December.
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As the Mayas predicted it, this is the end of an age, the old
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ERP dinosaurs.</p>
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<p>It's time to pull out the Ace: the SorrySAP.com domain name
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that I bought 6 years ago.</p>
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<p>If you want to test the v7 version online, just go the homepage.</p>
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</div>
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</section>
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