BVRP

BVRP was started in 1984 by "Bruno Vanryb and Roger Politis, sound engineers."{{cite news

|newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/22/business/worldbusiness/IHT-french-entrepreneurs-cash-in-on-fax-modems.html

|title=French Entrepreneurs Cash In on Fax Modems

|author=Mitchel Martin |date=November 22, 1993}} The company's first offering was a modem-based business phone number service, "a database program called Directory."

When their Paris-based company partnered with Hayes Microcomputer Products they increased their range beyond Paris and France "to 62 other countries."

Vanryb claimed that French venture capital companies "prefer to invest in bigger companies, they don't like startups" so he turned to U.S. sources, leading to AvanQuest and VCOM.

Avanquest is a marketing name for PC software such as Avanquest Fix-It Utilities 11 Professional, a collection of optimization tools.{{cite magazine |magazine=PC Magazine

|url=https://uk.pcmag.com/suites/9183/avanquest-fix-it-utilities-11-professional

|title=Avanquest Fix-It Utilities 11 Professional

|date=December 3, 2010}} In mid 2003 parent company BVRP expanded the Avanquest identity to be Avanquest Global Software Publishing,{{cite magazine |magazine=InfoWorld

|url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/2678108/avanquest-offers-international-software-publishing.html

|title=Avanquest offers international software publishing

|date=June 18, 2003}} which it then used to market in Japan and Spain.{{cite magazine |magazine=InfoWorld

|url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/2667089/avanquest-software-network-expands-into-japan--spain.html

|title=Avanquest software network expands into Japan, Spain

|date=January 13, 2004}} With Avanquest's 2007 acquisition of Nova Development Corp., "a publisher focusing on the consumer market," BVRP's portfolio reportedly became the fifth or sixth largest publisher of consumer software in the United States.{{cite news

|newspaper=NetworkWorld

|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/2303000/avanquest-acquires-software-publisher-nova.html

|title=Avanquest acquires software publisher Nova

|author=Marc Ferranti |year=2007}}

{{cite magazine |magazine=InfoWorld

|url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/2661013/avanquest-acquires-software-publisher-nova.html

|title=Avanquest acquires software publisher Nova

|quote=With the acquisition, Avanquest becomes one of the top five consumer software companies in the U.S.

|date=January 17, 2007}}WSJ-reported French currency conversion matters of 2006/2007 made the math challenging

In 2019, Avanquest had 83 million euro in revenue[footnote] from three main segments:

• IT security: antivirus, ad blocker, cleaning and optimization tools sold under the [https://www.adaware.com/ Adaware]{{Cite web|title=adaware: the best FREE Antivirus & Ad Blocker period.|url=https://www.adaware.com/|access-date=2021-01-21|website=Adaware|language=en}} brand
• PDF: PDF management products grouped under the [https://www.sodapdf.com/ SodaPDF]{{Cite web|title=Soda PDF - PDF Software to Create, Convert, Edit and Sign Files|url=https://www.sodapdf.com/|access-date=2021-01-21|website=www.sodapdf.com}} brand
• Photo: photo editing software and apps developed under the [https://www.inpixio.com/ InPixio]{{Cite web|title=inPixio® - Logiciels de photo|url=https://www.inpixio.com/fr/|access-date=2021-01-21|website=inPixio France|language=en}} brand

Memory Commander is an early DOS memory manager made by V Communications similar to the likes of QEMM, Helix Netroom or 386MAX, though much more capable. It allowed up to 904KB of conventional memory by utilizing the memory virtualization features of i386 to remap the Upper memory area into the High memory area in addition to automatically managing drivers and TSRs.{{cite magazine |title=Reliability and Service: The Best & Worst |date=June 1994 |magazine=PC World |url=https://vintageapple.org/pcworld/pdf/PC_World_9406_June_1994.pdf |page=191}}{{cite magazine |title=IBM turns PC division over to Cannavino |date=9 Dec 1991 |magazine=InfoWorld |url={{Google books|KT0EAAAAMBAJ|page=69|plainurl=yes}} |page=69 |publisher=InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. |volume=13 |issue=49}}

System Commander was introduced in 1993 by V Communications,{{cite news

|newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/21/technology/news-watch-when-one-operating-system-just-can-t-satisfy-a-customer.html

|title=When One Operating System Just Can't Satisfy a Customer

|author=Michel Marriott |date=May 21, 1998}}{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/technology/circuits/rearranging-rooms-on-the-hard-drive.html

|title=Rearranging Rooms on the Hard Drive

|author=J. D. Biersdorfer |date=October 10, 2006}} sometimes referred to as VCOM.

{{cite web

|url=https://www.corumgroup.com/transactions/bvrp-v-communications

|title=BVRP - V Communications |date=February 2005

|quote=V Communications is a .. VCOM}}

System Commander included Partition Commander. With the 2005 purchase by BVRP of this company, they were able to compete with PowerQuest (PQ) and its PartitionMagic. PQ's bundle of software included PQboot, competing with System Commander.

Although PowerQuest was acquired by Symantec, which retired this software in 2009, rather than update it to run under Windows Vista, System Commander and Partition Commander have a market: competitor Paragon Software Group released a major new upgrade in 2015.{{cite magazine |magazine=PC Magazine

|url=https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/paragon-hard-disk-manager-15-professional

|title=Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 Professional Review

|author=Edward Mendelson |date=January 6, 2015}}

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