[ddots-l] Re: HELP KEEP SIBELIUS IN BUSINESS!
- From: Kevin Gibbs <kevjazz@xxxxxx>
- To: "ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:49:34 -0500
Got an e-mail on this earlier tonight. Very concerned.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 28, 2012, at 12:32 AM, Chris Smart <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm just passing this along. Please do what you can and distribute this
> notice as well.
>
> Chris
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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@xxxxxxxx
>
> Martin 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-locations
>
> 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 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
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