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On November 18 Cyrusoft International, Inc., announced it was going out of business and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Cyrusoft is the author of the Mulberry email client, a favorite of some UO users. For details, see http://cyrusoft.com/
Silicon Graphics, once a leader in supercomputing and graphics software development,
was dropped from the New York Stock Exchange on November 7 after its stock
price dipped below the minimum standard for NYSE listings. For details, see
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/11/03/1325203.shtml?tid=139&tid=187&tid=98
http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2005/november/nyse.html
On October 12 Blackboard and WebCT, both major providers of education enterprise software and services, announced plans to merge. The company will remain under the Blackboard brand. For answers to frequently asked questions about how the merger will affect clients, see WebCT's FAQs page at http://hub-images.webct.com/resources/sinatra/mergerArticle.html
For more details about the business consequences of the merger, see http://www.blackboard.com/WebCT
Research in Motion Ltd (RIM), the makers of the popular BlackBerry handheld email device, lost the first round of its appeal of a patent infringement case in October, and now faces a court order that may shut down its operations in the U.S.
Rival company NTP, which brought the patent suit against RIM, has already
benefited from the litigation by selling licenses to BlackBerry rivals, including
Nokia and Good Technology. For details, see
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=aXg_WxvhN.go&refer=canada
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/tc20051215_806425.htm