-Users love open source ERP; downloaded by half-a-million users on SourceForge, the leading open source software development and community site-

Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, Massachusetts - February 19, 2008- Openbravo, the leading developer of web-based open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Point-of-Sale (PoS) solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has surpassed 500,000 downloads on SourceForge.net for its ERP software.

With over 160,000 projects and over one million registered users hosted on it, SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development web site. Users are provided with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code.

Openbravo's leading open source ERP solution was first published to SourceForge in April 2006. Rapidly gaining momentum, the software quickly rose to the top of its category. By August 2006, release 2.11 of Openbravo ERP dominated the ERP category on SourceForge.

Just three months later, Openbravo v2.13 became SourceForge's top-ranked project out of a field of almost 160,000 projects posted on the site. Since then, Openbravo has remained in the top ten projects across all software categories and has averaged over 1,000 downloads per day.

As a result of Openbravo's increasing success, SourceForge named Openbravo ERP the Project of the Month in September 2007.

Openbravo's POS, which Openbravo acquired as Librepos in October 2007, is successful as well, with over 100,000 downloads on SourceForge and is the leading open source POS solution. The acquisition grew Openbravo's product line and strengthened its positioning in the retail and hospitality segments.

Manel Sarasa, CEO of Openbravo, said "Having achieved this milestone on Valentine's Day displays that our community loves Openbravo and we love our community. Half-a-million downloads is an important milestone that demonstrates the word-of-mouth support our community has given our product, and we are looking forward to hitting the one million mark."