Re: Seven Hills/MyeSource -- gone?

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

Celt <reply@this.newsgroup> wrote:

>a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>>
>>    Would anyone know what became of Seven Hills Software? Two years
>>ago the company changed its name to "MyeSource" and had moved its 
>>focus from software publisher to some sort of Internet based company.
>>They continued publishing and selling Apple IIgs software under the new
>>name, for awhile anyway...
>
>A quick Google search shows Seven Hills Software's web page at:
>
>http://www.nettally.com/shss/INDEX.HTML

    That is definitely not current, I'm surprised it still exists. When the
company changed their name, they updated and moved that over
to this URL:

http://www.myesource.com/sevenhills/applesoftware

    You obvious can't reach it as the "myesource.com" domain isn't
registered any longer, but that was the official homepage for Seven
Hills Software (or rather MyeSource) for the past 2+ years.

>However, calls to the contact number listed (904-575-0566) get the "Your 
>call cannot be completed as dialed..." error message.  Also, the links 
>on the page are very old (Nathan Mates' page is still listed and the 
>link to Joe Kohn's page is very outdated).  An email to the address on 
>the page was quickly returned as Undeliverable: Receipient Unknown.  

    No surprise, it hasn't been touched since 1997-98. Further evidence
of that is Spectrum, Spectrum Internet Suite, SpaceFox and GATE are
listed as being distributed either exclusively or in part by Seven Hills, 
when in fact publication and distribution was transferred over completely
to Shareware Solutions II quite sometime ago.

    You stumbled upon a long since abandoned web site, which it seems
is all that's left of Seven Hills/MyeSource as of today.

>Sounds like they may be a dead duck.

    Well considering MyeSource relied solely on their online presence to
keep their company running, I can't imagine it'd be doing too well without
a web site for the past 6 months. That's why I suspect the same thing...

    I know Joe Kohn and a few others were trying to contact them a few
months back without any luck. They've essentially vanished without a
trace leaving some very popular IIgs software in "limboware" status.

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca