Martin Gerdes schrieb:
> Thomas Hochstein <
t...@thh.name> schrieb:
>> Nachdem 2014 die letzte Version released wurde, ist das ein etwas
>> ungewöhnlicher Eindruck.
>
> Nein. Anno 2014 wurde die "aktuelle" Version 8.0 auf den Markt gebracht.
Ja, die bislang und wohl auch dauerhaft letzte.
> Ich habe auf die Schnelle keine Versionsgeschichte gefunden, meine mich
> aber düster zu erinnern, daß Forté nach der Version 3.3 oder so
> bekanntgegeben hat, die Weiterentwicklung einzustellen.
Nein, das war 1997, nach dem Verkauf. Da war IIRC Agent 1.5 aktuell.
| Agent History
|
| More and more users want to know about the origins of Agent and Free
| Agent. This page is a chronology of our newsreader.
|
| 1993: The Genesis
|
| One day Mark Sidell was contemplating Cambridge University's Trojan
| Room Coffee Machine and wondering how to make money from the Internet
| when he came up with the idea to create an off-line newsreader for
| Windows.
|
| Mark pitched the idea to his partner, Chuck Knuff. Chuck, in turn,
| bounced the idea off some associates at the San Diego Supercomputer
| Center, and Agent was born.
|
| 1994: Agent .99
|
| If you can remember this far back, you are truly a veteran. Playfully
| named for Maxwell Smart's intelligent and sexy sidekick, Agent .99
| was the very first release of Agent. Those were the days.
|
| 1995-1997: The Golden Years
|
| For the next three years, a 20 person team took Agent to new heights
| with over 10 releases and countless features such as email, filters,
| spell-checking, folders and more.
|
| However, we got so good at collaborating with our users, that Chris
| Beck and Chuck Knuff cooked up the idea to create an email CRM
| (Customer Relationship Management) application called Adanté.
|
| VCs (Venture Capitalists) loved the idea and pretty soon we had
| customers like Dell Computers, General Motors, and the Los Angeles
| Times using Adanté.
|
| In 1997, based on the commercial success of Adanté, we sold the
| company to Genesys Telecommunications Labs in San Francisco. "Sorry
| about that, chief."
|
| 1998-2000: Agent's Dark Ages
|
| After Forté was acquired, Agent just didn't fit into the product plans
| at Genesys. Although the product was ably supported by Jeffrey Kaplan
| and Lois Cloud, no new features were added for three years!
|
| To this day, we are amazed at the Agent Community's ability to
| persevere through this period.
|
| 2001: Getting it Back Together
|
| In 2001, Chuck, Mark and Chris formed Dazler Software in an effort to
| re-acquire Agent and quit our day jobs. It took the better part of
| the year to pull this off, but in the end, we managed to generate two
| new releases, Agent 1.8 and 1.9.
[...]
<
https://web.archive.org/web/20020602153029/https://www.forteinc.com/agent/history.php>
Die Releases seit 2001 findest Du hier:
<
https://www.forteinc.com/release/index.php>
Eine Einstellung der weiteren Entwicklung wurde nie verkündet,
insbesondere nicht nach Agent 3.3.
-thh