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+AgileBill is a Flexible Billing and Invoicing Application for a number of 
+markets, including Web Hosts, ISPs, VoIP Providers, and membership/subscription
+type models.
+
+It features numerious plugins for payment processing, provisioning, and interfacing
+with a variety of 3rd-party applications and services.
+
+Development began as early as 2002, and initially released commercially in 2004. 
+
+The project was released to open source in November 26, 2008.
+
+For a full list of features, see this announcement: 
+	http://forum.agileco.com/showthread.php?t=1644
+
+The user community is located at:
+	http://forum.agileco.com
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