They obviously didn't know or care that Cakewalk has a large userbase. Why couldn't or wouldn't someone in their senior management just SELL the company rather than knowingly dump a 30 year old product with many customers to the gutter? Seems dastardly at best.

The whole thing is just unbelievable. I am in business myself a long time and never EVER seen something handled so bad. With such callous disregard to a loyal client base.
 

aidanodr
The whole thing is just unbelievable. I am in business myself a long time and never EVER seen something handled so bad. With such callous disregard to a loyal client base.
 

agreed!

I agree entirely with you both. I have been with Cakewalk for many years, from the old Pro Audio era and have grown to love the software as it blossomed to it's Sonar Platinum stage. I am a guitar player, and I will never ever buy Gibson brands again. Their overpriced instruments should have taken the blame for their bad business strategy. Not Cakewalk products.

I would go easy with the name calling of Gibson.
They have (after all) been kind enough to keep this forum and the servers open.

chuckebaby
I would go easy with the name calling of Gibson.
They have (after all) been kind enough to keep this forum and the servers open.

Good. I hope their senior management is reading this and this is a lame duck forum now anyway.

chuckebaby
I would go easy with the name calling of Gibson.
They have (after all) been kind enough to keep this forum and the servers open.

You do that, then.
 
Calculated damage control is in no way kindness.

There is a new forum. beyondcakewalk.com
Now Gibson can keep their server too.  

I'm sure they tried to sell and had no takers, hence the closedown. 
 
Gibson's issue is the circa $500 million debt hanging over them that needs a re-fi, and holding loss-making companies isn't going to help that. 

PhilW
I'm sure they tried to sell and had no takers, hence the closedown. 
 
Gibson's issue is the circa $500 million debt hanging over them that needs a re-fi, and holding loss-making companies isn't going to help that. 

We'll likely never know, but I can well imagine them having not tried to sell. I've worked for more than one employer that's gone into a tail-spin, and I've seen this a few times: the company decides to just cut all possible outgoings that don't look immediately critical, on the assumption that they can recover later. I get the feeling that's what Gibson is doing, over all its operations, and someone probably saw the Cakewalk office salary bill as something they could just get rid of.
 
What typically happens at the end of this kind of wild cutting is that you survive just long enough to find out you don't actually have a business any more.