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Automotive News, October, 2007 by Kisiel, Ralph

Byline: Ralph Kisiel

Sandi Jerome believes the time is right for DealerStar.

Jerome, a longtime dealership technology consultant, has developed the dealership management system, scheduled to be available nationwide in January.

Unlike competing systems, DealerStar has open source code that lets software vendors and dealership users modify the software to add functions.

DealerStar's emergence will send even more waves through a marketplace that has seen more changes in one year than in the past decade.

A year ago, Universal Computer Systems Inc. acquired Reynolds and Reynolds Co. for $2.8 billion. Then Microsoft Corp. said it was developing a dealership management system.

Next, Oracle Corp. and SAP AG said they were...

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