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An Update from PTE Blog.

News just in, that contrary to earlier reports, Avid are to close the UK Sibelius office, the home of the Sibelius development team, who knows where this leaves the future of Sibelius. The image above is from a Facebook post on iPhone.

One long term Sibelius team member said “this is heartbreaking, it took us 15 years to build this business and it took Avid 15 months to wreck it.”

More to follow…

Update on Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 12:34PM by Russ Hughes
Latest news is that the software is remaining and the work is being moved to a coding team in Kiev or Daly City. This will of be to cut costs and is sadly normal practice for 90% of software houses.

AND......

Contrary to yesterday’s announcement indicating that Avid were making a choice for consumer, it would appear that is not the entire story.

We’ve learned that at least 38 jobs in Pro and Enterprise at ‘at risk’, this is where staff are officially told to be aware that their job isn’t secure.

Key people like Sam Bogoch, until this week Director, Worldwide Enterprise Sales Programs have changed their profile to TBD. His role was described as ‘I was responsible for business development for our IME (Integrated Media Enterprise) products at Avid… co-led interdisciplinary Interplay Active Archive solution team which recently introduced a cost-effective configuration of Avid’s Interplay MAM technology.’ This couldn’t be further from bottom end retail if you tried.

This kind of move does seem to contradict the indication that Avid are moving to a Pro and Enterprise market.

Avid are yet to comment on this anomaly.

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My own opinion of course but things do not appear to be well at Avid folks.......

Over in the All Things Guitar forum, there is what I believe to be a legitimate concern as to what the future of the Eleven Rack may be.

Sad.......

Lou