- Peachtree Accounting
Peachtree Accounting is business management
software published by Sage Software and sold primarily in theUnited States . There have been several generations of software sold under the Peachtree Accounting name.Peachtree Accounting was originally sold by Peachtree Software, a
software publisher founded in 1978 byBen Dyer, Ron Roberts, Steve Mann, and John Hayes . The company was carved out of The Computer SystemCenter, an early Altair dealer founded by Roberts, Mann, Jim Dunion, and Rich Stafford and where Dyer had joined as the manager and where the first software was published in 1977. The company's products were included in the initial launch of the IBM PC, and it was acquired by Management Science American in June 1981. After several subsequent changes of ownership ending with ADP, Peachtree was eventually acquired by theSage Group in 1998 for USD $145 million. Peachtree was the first business software introduced formicrocomputer s and the oldest microcomputer software program for business in current use, with the possible exception of the original Microsoft Basic interpreters, also introduced in 1975.Fact|date=December 2007ee also
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* [http://www.peachtree.com/ Peachtree website]
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