Need4Speed
Diamond Member
Ok...so when the hell did this happen. I know I've been busy but surely I would have noticed that mulberry has been axed!
"Hi folks,
It is with deep regret that I have to inform you of the immediate cessation of operations of Cyrusoft International, Inc./ISAMET. The company today filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
This situation is the culmination of a series of events that has taken place over the last few months. Whilst I have made my own best efforts to avoid this, regrettably those came to naught.
Sadly this situation pretty much means the end of Mulberry. Its now almost ten years since I wrote the first code of the Macintosh IMAP email client that would become Mulberry. It has been a labor of love and much personal sacrifice, and despite this disheartening outcome, I do maintain a certain amount of pride of what was achieved with limited resources.
That said, my biggest disappointment is for the effect this will have on our customers. Customers have come and some have gone, but for the most part many have remained loyal and helped us battle through new releases with feedback and help over the years. Its sad that at this time with a new major release just out and the prospect of exploring new avenues with the calendaring capability, that this situation has occurred.
Right now all assets of the company are in the hands of the bankruptcy trustee, including the software and other items that make up the Mulberry product suite. Whilst there might be some opportunity to recover those at some point in the future, there would certainly be no business left from it as customers would likely have switched or be in the process of switching to alternative clients. Building up a new business from scratch would be very hard.
The possibility of open sourcing the code is also limited due to dependencies on third-party code and development tools that would require some significant reworking to make it viable for anyone to even compile and use. And with the number of other open source clients that exist now, one would have to ask whether there would be any point to that anyway.
The last set of releases we did yesterday will hopefully allow continued use of Mulberry whilst other options are examined and evaluated by you. Transitioning data from Mulberry to elsewhere should not be too difficult as all our local data formats are standards based - though things like rules and preferences will of course have to be recreated.
The website and mailing lists will likely continue to operate for a while before the plug is pulled, so you should be able to continue to discuss this event there, however, whilst bankruptcy proceedings are ongoing, I'm afraid I won't be able to comment further.
This has been something of a roller-coaster ride, particularly of late, and now, sadly, our Mulberry tree has been felled. It has been a pleasure to work with all of you and you have my good wishes for the future.
Cyrus Daboo
For those interested the final versions can be downloaded here."
http://www.cyrusoft.com/
"Hi folks,
It is with deep regret that I have to inform you of the immediate cessation of operations of Cyrusoft International, Inc./ISAMET. The company today filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
This situation is the culmination of a series of events that has taken place over the last few months. Whilst I have made my own best efforts to avoid this, regrettably those came to naught.
Sadly this situation pretty much means the end of Mulberry. Its now almost ten years since I wrote the first code of the Macintosh IMAP email client that would become Mulberry. It has been a labor of love and much personal sacrifice, and despite this disheartening outcome, I do maintain a certain amount of pride of what was achieved with limited resources.
That said, my biggest disappointment is for the effect this will have on our customers. Customers have come and some have gone, but for the most part many have remained loyal and helped us battle through new releases with feedback and help over the years. Its sad that at this time with a new major release just out and the prospect of exploring new avenues with the calendaring capability, that this situation has occurred.
Right now all assets of the company are in the hands of the bankruptcy trustee, including the software and other items that make up the Mulberry product suite. Whilst there might be some opportunity to recover those at some point in the future, there would certainly be no business left from it as customers would likely have switched or be in the process of switching to alternative clients. Building up a new business from scratch would be very hard.
The possibility of open sourcing the code is also limited due to dependencies on third-party code and development tools that would require some significant reworking to make it viable for anyone to even compile and use. And with the number of other open source clients that exist now, one would have to ask whether there would be any point to that anyway.
The last set of releases we did yesterday will hopefully allow continued use of Mulberry whilst other options are examined and evaluated by you. Transitioning data from Mulberry to elsewhere should not be too difficult as all our local data formats are standards based - though things like rules and preferences will of course have to be recreated.
The website and mailing lists will likely continue to operate for a while before the plug is pulled, so you should be able to continue to discuss this event there, however, whilst bankruptcy proceedings are ongoing, I'm afraid I won't be able to comment further.
This has been something of a roller-coaster ride, particularly of late, and now, sadly, our Mulberry tree has been felled. It has been a pleasure to work with all of you and you have my good wishes for the future.
Cyrus Daboo
For those interested the final versions can be downloaded here."
http://www.cyrusoft.com/
