2. Surpass

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1. History

2. Sales figures

3. Ownership and financial status, and vendor stability

The following is quoted directly from "Automation System Marketplace 2007: An Industry Redefined Private equity moves into the ILS, and open source support emerges" By Marshall Breeding -- Library Journal, 4/1/2007

Surpass Software Calhoun, GA; 706-625-5399 www.SurpassSoftware.com

Surpass is a small, privately owned company of nine employees founded in 1985. It sells primarily to school libraries. In 2006, the company made 152 sales of its Surpass Library Automation product. The firm continues to make enhancements to its centralized automation system and launched a hosted version of the system.

4. Product lines and level of vendor support for product

5. System requirements and Available components/modules

6. Type, size of the library for product, and number of customers and examples

7. Recent development of the company

8. Strengths and weaknesses

9. Subjective evaluation (your comments after testing the demo product)

10. Recommendations (one or more paragraphs summarizing the findings)

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