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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: RightBrain Software calls it quits Date: 30 Sep 1993 17:59:31 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 55 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28fks3$b8r@digifix.digifix.com> RightBrain Software Ceases NeXTSTEP Operations, Announces Transition Plan September 30, 1993, WOODSIDE, CA -- RightBrain Software today announced that it has ceased its operations developing and marketing software for NEXTSTEP, effective October 1, 1993. "I have been in this market since 1989, when I first joined NeXT, and have been running RightBrain Software since 1990. It is with great sadness that we withdraw from this market," said Glenn Reid, president and founder of RightBrain Software. "RightBrain's several shipping products have all found new homes," said Reid, "and we're in the process of helping those products make the transition smoothly." PasteUp, RightBrain's flagship page layout program, will be acquired by Anderson Financial Systems Inc. of Springhouse, PA, who will continue to develop and support the product as of October 1. AFS will contact existing customers to announce their support and upgrade plans. Portfolio and Rulers, two of RightBrain's utility products for publishing, will be acquired by Trilithon Software of Portola Valley, CA. LockScreen will revert back to its original author, and LaunchPad will be contributed to the public domain. ExactlyWrite, RightBrain's word processor under development, will be acquired by Information Technology Solutions of Chicago, IL. Previously announced negotiations with Adobe Systems Incorporated, of Mountain View, CA, to acquire the engineering and marketing rights to Adobe Illustrator and Adobe TouchType were never fully realized, and those products remain with Adobe Systems, as does the Adobe Type Library. "We have worked hard to make this transition as painless as possible for our business partners and customers, and we're pleased that the products will continue to be developed and supported," said Reid. RightBrain has not announced future directions as this time, although it is rumored that RightBrain's founder, Glenn Reid, may get into the lucrative termite inspection and repair business in California. Reid said: "I've gotten to be very good at finding bugs in software, and last weekend I found a lot of them in my house, as well. It seems like a natural transition."
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