I'm just passing this along. Please do what you can and distribute this notice as well.
ChrisIn 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.
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 shore up its Wall Street 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.
We implore those of you who use this marvelous composing application to write the board here:
http://ir.avid.com/contactBoard.cfm The direct email addresses for the CEO and other Avid VP/Directors are:Chris Gahagan (Senior Vice President of Products) who we believe actually closed the Sibelius London office.
His email is: chris.gahagan@xxxxxxxx Gary Greenfield (CEO): gary.greenfield@xxxxxxxxMartin Kloiber (VP Live Systems and Consoles at Avid Technology): martin.kloiber@xxxxxxxx
Dana Ruzicka (VP Strategic Alliances at Avid Technology): dana.ruzicka@xxxxxxxx
Ian Bruce (Worldwide Director of Corporate Communications): ian.bruce@xxxxxxxx
and the AVID Blog: http://community.avid.com/blogs/avid/archive/2012/07/07/sibelius-community.aspx Registered offices of Avid worldwide including Fax numbers: http://www.avid.com/us/about-avid/office-locationsBased 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 coordinated 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, most likely in the 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.
Please help us to persuade Avid that it is in everyone's best interests for them to sell Sibelius to a third party as soon as possible. This will still ease its cash crisis, but will ensure Sibelius lives on in safe hands.
Save Sibelius campaign contact info: Derek Williams derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +44 (0)785 760 2004 +44 (0)131 208 3668 Fax: +44 (0)131 777 2573 --------------------------------------------------CTS MASTERING, affordable and professional mixing and mastering: http://www.ctsmastering.com
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