This is EARTH SHATTERING news for the #musicproduction world. All of my fellow composers and arrangers out there: you need to see this.
https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/makemusic-ends-development-and-availability-of-finale/
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^ RUMINT from a band director colleague is that Sibelius may also be on its way out. If that were to happen, we would have a Highlander situation in the professional score writing app world.
^ I started using Finale way back on version 3.0. I switched to Sibelius after finding it much easier to use, and I was there from v. 5 to 7, until Avid (owners of Pro Tools) bought the company and sacked the original UK development team.
That team was hired by Steinberg where they began work a clean-sheet competitor. That work became Dorico. I immediately jumped over to that app upon its first release and have been there ever since.