Fargos population has grown by roughly a quarter in the last 20 years, from 74,000 in 1990 to 95,500 in 2009, according to the u. Doug served as the ceo of great plains software and led it through a. Its university enrollment has expanded and its downtown. Adjacent cities include moorhead, minnesota population 32,177, and west fargo, north dakota estimated population 14,940. Its planned acquisition of great plains software will allow the software giant to use the fargobased company. Doug burgum bears much of the responsibility for this.
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Great plains the origins of great plains software can be traced back to a family of overachievers in fargo, north dakota the burgum family. Great plains harmony chorus invites you to visit us any thursday evening. The population of the fargomoorhead metropolitan statistical area cass. Morton became involved in the software industry through doug burgum and. That might be because, in a state with a population of 740,000, most of. He joined the company in 1983 and became its president in 1984 after leading a small investment group composed of family members in buying out the rest of the company.
Based in minnesota, the fargo, nd office was added in 2018 with the acquisition of longtime microsoft dynamics gp partner dfc consultants. Many of the product innovation ideas we had at great plains software came. Little hub on the prairie bismarck, north dakota news. Work at microsoft and still enjoy the laidback midwest lifestyle. Another company is shipping jobs to a remote land to find good workers for less money. Techrepublic s news editor, sonja thompson, was born and raised in fargo, nd. Great plains software was run by doug burgum, north dakotas current governor.