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{{Short description|American accounting software company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = '''Passport Software, Inc.'''
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'''Passport Software, Inc.''' is a privately held company located in [[Northfield, Illinois]] that manufactures and markets [[accounting software]], manufacturing software, and [[business software]] to small to mid-sized companies under the brand name Passport Business
Passport Software, Inc. released their latest version of software in
[[Windows]], [[UNIX]] and [[Linux]] versions. PBS is the next generation of RealWorld software.
==History==
Passport Software, Inc. was founded in 1983 by John Miller, Bob Wall, and Muriel Spencer. As a distributor of RealWorld Accounting Software in the 1980s, Passport developed specialized Unix accounting software. In February, 2000, [[Great Plains Software]] purchased RealWorld Corporation.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stedman|first=Craig|date=2000-01-07|title=Great Plains picks up competitor, application|url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2593858/great-plains-picks-up-competitor--application.html|access-date=2021-06-15|website=Computerworld|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-09-04|title=The Software That Won't Die|url=https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/the-software-that-wont-die|access-date=2021-06-15|website=Accounting Today|language=en}}</ref> Microsoft purchased Great Plains one year later.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Xenakis|first=John|date=2001-01-10|title=Technology Sidebar: The Midrange Accounting Software Shakeout|url=https://www.cfo.com/technology/2001/01/technology-sidebar-the-midrange-accounting-software-shakeout/|access-date=2021-06-15|website=CFO|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=e Advantage|date=2007-06-08|title=Why Microsoft bought Great Plains Software|url=https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-microsoft-bought-great-plains-software/|access-date=2021-06-15|website=TechRepublic|language=en}}</ref>
Since 2000, Passport Software, Inc. has continued the enhancement and development of '''RealWorld''' software, now called Passport Business Solutions. The company maintains a partner channel of hundreds of partners who sell its products throughout North America and the Caribbean.{{
=== Litigation ===
Passport was a long-time licensed dealer of RealWorld through its purchase by Great Plains software and beyond. In 1989, Passport licensed its PBS derivative of RealWorld for five years to Do It Best Corporation, known as DIB. In October and November of 2000, after unsuccessful negotiations to renew and expand the license, DIB started negotiating a license from Great Plains, the new owner of RealWorld, and worked with Passport to remove Passport's updates to RealWorld. Passport discovered that DIB had long been using a purchase order program that it claimed to have developed on its own, but which had been mostly copied from an unlicensed Passport purchase order software modules, and showing a DIB copyright. Around this time, Passport copyright notices in DIB's software were replaced with a DIB division name's copyright notice.
In May 2001, Great Plains decided to terminate Passport's license to RealWorld, which at that time was set to run through 2010. DIB sued Passport preemptively to prevent Passport form interfering with its use of the software, and Passport countersued for copyright infringement for the purchase order system, and for instigating Great Plains to terminate the RealWorld license to Passport.<ref>{{Cite book|last=BATTERSBY|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9-d7CAAAQBAJ&q=%22do+it+best%22+%22realworld%22&pg=SA5-PA30|title=Licensing Update 2015|date=2015-04-14|publisher=Wolters Kluwer|isbn=978-1-4548-5730-3|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=SCHALLER|first=WILLIAM LYNCH|date=2019|title=Method Matters: Statutory Construction Principles and the Illinois Trade Secrets Act Preemption Puzzle in the Northern District of Illinois|url=https://commons.lib.niu.edu/bitstream/handle/10843/20255/39-2-Schaller-195-239-PDFA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|journal=Northern Illinois University Law Review|volume=39-2|pages=215}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=DO IT BEST CORPORATION v. PASSPORT SOFTWARE, INC., 01 C 7674 {{!}} Casetext Search + Citator|url=https://casetext.com/case/do-it-best-corporation-v-passport-software|access-date=2021-06-15|website=casetext.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=DO IT BEST CORP. v. PASSPORT SOFTWARE, INC., No. 01 7674 {{!}} Casetext Search + Citator|url=https://casetext.com/case/do-it-best-corp-v-passport-software-2|access-date=2021-06-15|website=casetext.com}}</ref>
==Manufacturing==
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[[Category:Business software companies]]
[[Category:Software companies based in Illinois]]
[[Category:Software companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Companies based in Cook County, Illinois]]
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