Bad move by AVID.. never used Sibelius however this is a shame indeed.
Rob
Avid seeking feedback on closure of Sibelius UK office
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- KVRAF
- 5175 posts since 29 Apr, 2006
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- KVRAF
- 5175 posts since 29 Apr, 2006
http://www.sibeliususers.org/petition/petition.html
For a full explanation of the issues, please visit our website http://www.sibeliususers.org and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SaveSibelius
In July 2012, Avid Technology announced the closure of Sibelius UK, home of the Sibelius development and support team. Avid claims this will make no difference to Sibelius.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
At this very moment, a massive revolt is going on amongst Sibelius users against this ridiculous decision. Within 3 days of launching our Save Sibelius campaign, over 5,000 users 'Liked' the page, which has been seen by over 485,000 Facebook clients.
Sibelius is a music composing/arranging application designed, maintained and supported by the Sibelius Team in the UK Office. The UK Office is closing, and the programmers and designers who have made Sibelius a major success will not be able to further develop the best computer based composing/arranging application in existence today.
With the release of Version 7, Avid can reap profits to ameliorate its Wall St losses for many years from product sales without any ongoing development or technical support. However, Sibelius is far more than just code, it lives and breathes in the hearts and minds of its inventors and developers. Remove them, and Sibelius eventually becomes roadkill. While Avid are claiming ongoing support for Sibelius, this claim would be substantiatable only by leaving it in the hands of its present development team, who have been responsible for crafting Sibelius into the world's best selling and most successful music score writing application.
Avid are only trying to say what they think we want to hear.
It is imperative that Avid reverse this decision and divest its holding of Sibelius to a viable new owner immediately so as to avoid a diaspora of its development team to other jobs.
We implore those of you who use this marvelous composing application to sign this petition, spread the petition far and wide, and moreover to go further if you can, by visiting our website and Facebook page. If enough people get behind this campaign, we can force Avid to listen to its customers and back away from this reckless decision.
The inventors of Sibelius, the Finn brothers, recently wrote the following message on the Sibelisu forum at http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/helpcen ... &groupid=3&.
Please persuade Avid to sell Sibelius back to them by signing this petition, and clicking in the Email The Board on our website.
MESSAGE TO SIBELIUS USERS
"We were very concerned to hear earlier this month that Avid is terminating the jobs of the Sibelius development team in London and handing the software over to other programmers, apparently to cut costs. As far as we know, Sibelius continues to be extremely successful, so this cost-cutting is a response to financial problems elsewhere in Avid, not with Sibelius itself.
Ever since then we have been quietly trying to do everything we can to change this situation, including twice offering to buy Sibelius back from Avid. However, Avid has declined. While they haven't given a reason, we assume that Sibelius is a substantial source of profits to them, so they don't want to sell it to anyone.
We naturally feel very sad about this treatment of our friends and colleagues who have been key to making Sibelius a success, and who have become the world experts in this specialized field. We are also very grateful to the many Sibelius users who have expressed their concern and support; though at this point, it seems unlikely that any protests will change Avid's mind.
We hope Sibelius nonetheless continues to be the world's most successful music notation software.
Ben & Jonathan Finn
Sibelius founders"
For a full explanation of the issues, please visit our website http://www.sibeliususers.org and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SaveSibelius
In July 2012, Avid Technology announced the closure of Sibelius UK, home of the Sibelius development and support team. Avid claims this will make no difference to Sibelius.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
At this very moment, a massive revolt is going on amongst Sibelius users against this ridiculous decision. Within 3 days of launching our Save Sibelius campaign, over 5,000 users 'Liked' the page, which has been seen by over 485,000 Facebook clients.
Sibelius is a music composing/arranging application designed, maintained and supported by the Sibelius Team in the UK Office. The UK Office is closing, and the programmers and designers who have made Sibelius a major success will not be able to further develop the best computer based composing/arranging application in existence today.
With the release of Version 7, Avid can reap profits to ameliorate its Wall St losses for many years from product sales without any ongoing development or technical support. However, Sibelius is far more than just code, it lives and breathes in the hearts and minds of its inventors and developers. Remove them, and Sibelius eventually becomes roadkill. While Avid are claiming ongoing support for Sibelius, this claim would be substantiatable only by leaving it in the hands of its present development team, who have been responsible for crafting Sibelius into the world's best selling and most successful music score writing application.
Avid are only trying to say what they think we want to hear.
It is imperative that Avid reverse this decision and divest its holding of Sibelius to a viable new owner immediately so as to avoid a diaspora of its development team to other jobs.
We implore those of you who use this marvelous composing application to sign this petition, spread the petition far and wide, and moreover to go further if you can, by visiting our website and Facebook page. If enough people get behind this campaign, we can force Avid to listen to its customers and back away from this reckless decision.
The inventors of Sibelius, the Finn brothers, recently wrote the following message on the Sibelisu forum at http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/helpcen ... &groupid=3&.
Please persuade Avid to sell Sibelius back to them by signing this petition, and clicking in the Email The Board on our website.
MESSAGE TO SIBELIUS USERS
"We were very concerned to hear earlier this month that Avid is terminating the jobs of the Sibelius development team in London and handing the software over to other programmers, apparently to cut costs. As far as we know, Sibelius continues to be extremely successful, so this cost-cutting is a response to financial problems elsewhere in Avid, not with Sibelius itself.
Ever since then we have been quietly trying to do everything we can to change this situation, including twice offering to buy Sibelius back from Avid. However, Avid has declined. While they haven't given a reason, we assume that Sibelius is a substantial source of profits to them, so they don't want to sell it to anyone.
We naturally feel very sad about this treatment of our friends and colleagues who have been key to making Sibelius a success, and who have become the world experts in this specialized field. We are also very grateful to the many Sibelius users who have expressed their concern and support; though at this point, it seems unlikely that any protests will change Avid's mind.
We hope Sibelius nonetheless continues to be the world's most successful music notation software.
Ben & Jonathan Finn
Sibelius founders"
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- KVRAF
- 5817 posts since 8 May, 2008 from ssssskipping ......... I left you there
Sibelius lovers, this is your new home:
http://www.steinberg.net/en/company/pre ... enter.html
http://www.steinberg.net/forum/viewtopi ... 19&t=28116
http://www.steinberg.net/en/company/pre ... enter.html
http://www.steinberg.net/forum/viewtopi ... 19&t=28116
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- KVRAF
- 2169 posts since 7 Dec, 2005
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- KVRian
- 1115 posts since 6 Jul, 2009
Well, that's some great news.
By the way, KVR needs a "tears of joy" emoticon...
By the way, KVR needs a "tears of joy" emoticon...
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- KVRAF
- 5175 posts since 29 Apr, 2006
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- KVRAF
- 5817 posts since 8 May, 2008 from ssssskipping ......... I left you there
They discontinued Cubasis and Steinberg Pro 16 for Commodore 64!!!!!!memyselfandus wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinberg# ... d_products
The busters....
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- KVRAF
- 4682 posts since 25 Mar, 2006 from The city by the bay
siriusbliss wrote:Large companies DO ACQUIRE other companies for intellectual property, licensing, etc. - so perhaps Avid is just consolidating and will keep the Sib core engineers on staff, and continue to build upon Sibs reputation.
Indeed, it can even happen to seemingly successful Silicon Valley companies. In the case of Sibelius, though, it might be more surprising given that most of the market seems to be made up of those who use it or Finale. Then again, back when I used to use Studio Vision, I thought that its popularity would have kept it alive for much longer than it did, so, who knows.At the time Opcode went under, the Studio Vision sequencer was at the front of the pack, with arguably the best MIDI editor written to this day. Their most notable software titles include:
Vision (a MIDI-only sequencer)
Studio Vision (a full sequencer, including digital audio)
Galaxy (a patch editor and librarian)
OMS (a MIDI-interface environment)
Max (a graphical development environment)
In 1998, Opcode was bought by Gibson Guitar Corporation. Development on Opcode products ceased in 1999.
Some of Opcode's ex-employees went on to be part of Apple's Mac OS X Core Audio and MIDI software development.
As someone who had the pleasure of learning notation on Finale 3.0
I think it's fair to say that Sibelius was a significant factor in motivating that company to make its software more user friendly. Competition is generally always good for the consumer.