David, My understanding is that Sibelius won't be retaining the core group of staff who have helped shape the software over the past 15 years. Instead, Avid will be outsourcing continued development of Sibelius to programmers in Eastern Europe, in a pure cost-cutting move. That doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the future of the product. The most important asset any piece of software has are the human beings who helped develop it, and if those people aren't being retained, then it's hard to see how the software will continue to move in a positive direction.
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 31 Jul 2012, at 5:16 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: > On 7/31/2012 2:24 PM, Clif Ashcraft wrote: >> My big worry about any takeover of MakeMusic is that the same thing >> will happen to Finale that happened to Concertware back when Jump >> music bought it from Great Wave software. It turned out that Jump >> was only interested in Concertware to use as the engine for a piano >> tutorial program and they essentially abandoned the original product. >> It was nothing like Finale (or Sibelius) as a music typesetting >> program, but served my needs quite well for music playback and making >> practice tapes for the choir I sing with. I used my last upgraded >> version of Concertware for years until I could no longer get a >> computer with an operating system that would run it, then I switched >> over to FInale. Now that I have learned to use Finale reasonably >> well, I would hate to go through the same thing all over again. What >> alternatives do we have these days? Both Concertware and Sibelius >> are gone or on the way out and now Finale is under threat. Clif >> > > Who says that Sibelius gone or on the way out? It's a big profit center > for Avid and just because they've consolidated the development into > another already existing development office that's no reason to consider > it a dead or dying product. > > > > > -- > David H. Bailey > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
