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 dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
