J_Naylor4
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SAVE SIBELIUS!
#1004844 - 22/08/12 01:31 PM
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The UK office was shut down last night. The software has been put in deep-freeze by its
owners, Avid, who refuse to sell it back to the founders. Without development Sibelius, a
software that so many musicians depend on for there music, there livelihood, will grind to
a halt.
For more info and to join the campaign:
http://www.sibeliususers.org/
From the campaign:
The world's leading music scoring
software, Sibelius is in crisis: this will be of real concern to all Sibelius users.
On July 2nd Sibelius' parent company, Avid Technology announced the closure of
Sibelius UK, the Finsbury Park home of the Sibelius development team. Avid claims this
will make no difference either to Sibelius or to its technical support.
As
with ProTools, Avid's strategy is to send the coding and maintenance work offshore.
Based on its latest published figures Avid is in financial trouble. Right after
the most recent stockholders meeting, all the Avid board of directors sold significant
shares of stock, clearly a co-ordinated sale. Simultaneously, several key executives
resigned, including Vice President, CFO and CTO. Avid is short of cash and desperately
trying to shore up its liquidity with reckless cost cutting.
Sibelius is
viable as a standalone company, but without sustained pressure from its users, Avid will
try to run it offshore, in Ukraine. This short-term thinking is solely to ease Avid
through its present cash crisis, not in any way for the benefit of Sibelius users. In
fact it will effectively destroy Sibelius.
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J_Naylor4
Joined: 03/07/11
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Re: SAVE SIBELIUS!
[Re: J_Naylor4]
#1005119 - 23/08/12 11:58 PM
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narcoman
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Re: SAVE SIBELIUS!
[Re: J_Naylor4]
#1005155 - 24/08/12 09:14 AM
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As far as I'm aware you're a little out of date with info??? Isnt this now going to
California? Or is it back to Ukraine again....
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Exalted Wombat
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Re: SAVE SIBELIUS!
[Re: narcoman]
#1005178 - 24/08/12 11:49 AM
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The best information seems to be that it will be run as ProTools currently is -
administration in California, engineering outsourced to the Ukraine. Recruiting
has commenced: http://www.globallogic.com.ua/?option=com_jsjobs&view=jobposting&layout=vi
ewjob&Itemid=6&jobcat=62&jobid=50961It's a civilised country, with
universities turning out fine programmers and probably a richer musical tradition than
either Britain or the US. This isn't a "third-world outsource".
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feline1
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Loc: Brighton, UK
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Re: SAVE SIBELIUS!
[Re: J_Naylor4]
#1005179 - 24/08/12 11:55 AM
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Ukraine? civilised?! I'd rather live in Doncaster...
-------------------- ~~~ A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen as you are tossed with! www.feline1.co.uk ~~~
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The Red Bladder
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Re: SAVE SIBELIUS!
[Re: feline1]
#1005180 - 24/08/12 11:57 AM
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You've obviously never been to Doncaster!
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zenguitar
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Re: SAVE SIBELIUS!
[Re: J_Naylor4]
#1005188 - 24/08/12 12:21 PM
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And the Sibelius story was a short piece on Radio 4's You and Yours this lunchtime. Andy 
-------------------- When the going gets weird, the Weird turn Pro.
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feline1
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Quote The Red Bladder:
You've
obviously never been to Doncaster!
No. But it's much like Lurgan. /shudders/
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~~~ A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen as you are tossed with! www.feline1.co.uk ~~~
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