SADiE closing it's doors?

I was just reading in Prosound News, and maybe this is old news, that
SADiE is closing it's doors. The article in Prosound goes into great
detail about why the SADiE platform/product is no longer viable, and one
of the things it talks about is the hardware base of their system. It
was mentioned that it is very tough to compete in the DAW marketplace
with proprietary hardware and to compete with software only solutions
that rely on the ever increasing native power of computer CPU's.

Regards, Jeff Wexler

On Mar 28, 10:25 am, Jeff Wexler <j....RemoveThis@jwsound.net> wrote:
> I was just reading in Prosound News, and maybe this is old news, that
> SADiE is closing it's doors. The article in Prosound goes into great
> detail about why the SADiE platform/product is no longer viable, and one
> of the things it talks about is the hardware base of their system. It
> was mentioned that it is very tough to compete in the DAW marketplace
> with proprietary hardware and to compete with software only solutions
> that rely on the ever increasing native power of computer CPU's.
>
> Regards, Jeff Wexler

Viable in what sense? The systems still work very well, and have a
fanatically loyal user base, esp. among high-end music recordists and
editors. I don't think competing in the marketplace with proprietary
hardware is the problem at all: ProTools demands its own hardware,
MOTU uses it's own hardware, to name two of the dominant players.
Sadie's problem was marketing and an over reliance on their
institutional users like the BBC and radio networks. The other shoe
has not dropped yet about what will happen to their intellectual
property and designs.

Philip Perkins