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Avid is still around, but it's not looking very healthy. They've fired whole dev teams - one of whom was largely hired by a competitor, who have now developed a
by TylerE 3y ago
Avid is still around, but it's not looking very healthy. They've fired whole dev teams - one of whom was largely hired by a competitor, who have now developed a competing project that is eating Avid alive in that (fiarly niche) space.
- MrDrMcCoy 3y agoWhere can we read more about this? I'm at least curious to know who that competitor is.
- TylerE 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorico
- dylan604 3y agoman, i was hoping this was going to be a serious discussion on NLEs. instead, we get some niche product of a niche field. i'm not really sure this counts. that's like the team that works for lighting within Unity left to build a new tool that exports settings to JSON.
- TylerE 3y agoYou're being overly dismissive. There are thousands of people working in such software every day - from serious composers, professional music engravers, orchestra libraians, down to church choirmasters and the like. It's a several hundred dollar product that supports a dev team in the low double digits. It's niche, but it's not THAT niche.
- InitialLastName 3y agoAvid also just did a deal to go private under a private equity group; I wouldn't say the prognosis is looking good.
- Gansejunge 3y agoI was wondering why the name Avid was familiar but also had a negative connotation in my head, then I remembered it was from a YouTube video [1] about how horrible its interface is. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI
- duped 3y agoAre you talking about Sibelius? That was over a decade ago and AVID had a killer run financially afterwards.