Olidata is an Italian

Italy

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 computer

Computer

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 system manufacturer. The company was founded in Cesena, Italy

Cesena

Cesena is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, south of Ravenna and west of Rimini, on the Savio River, co-chief of the Province of Forlì-Cesena. It is at the foot of the Apennines, and about 15 km from the Adriatic Sea.-History:Cesena was originally an Umbrian...

 in 1982 by Carlo Rossi and Adolfo Savini as a limited liability company

Limited liability company

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 (LLC). Olidata specializes in software development

Software development

Software development is the development of a software product...

. The company's accounting software

Accounting software

Accounting software is application software that records and processes accounting transactions within functional modules such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and trial balance. It functions as an accounting information system...

 and administrative software divisions were eventually sold to Olivetti

Olivetti

Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.- Founding :The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti...

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Olidata is one of the largest manufacturers of computer hardware

Computer hardware

Personal computer hardware are component devices which are typically installed into or peripheral to a computer case to create a personal computer upon which system software is installed including a firmware interface such as a BIOS and an operating system which supports application software that...

 in Italy.

The company also manufactures LCD televisions. In April 2008, Olidata announced the production of its JumPc, a modified version of Intel's Classmate PC

Classmate PC

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In 2009, Acer acquired 29.9% of Olidata.