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Myriad
26 rue Michel de Montaigne
F-31200 Toulouse
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Myriad Software
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Myriad Software was established in 1988.
From its early
beginning, it is located in Toulouse, a
city in the South-West of
France.
Toulouse has been given the name "the Pink
City" ("la Ville Rose")
because of the traditional pink bricks and
tiles houses and ancient
monuments (over 1000 years old) are made
of.
The "Garonne" river and the "Canal du
Midi" cut right across the
city.
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The team
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Although team members are versatile, each of them
developed a
specialization.
Depending on your demand, here are the people you
will get in touch
with:
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Didier
Guillion
Born 1962
First program edited in 1982
Macintosh specialist
C language
In charge of software interface and
ergonomics
didier@myriad-online.com |
Olivier
Guillion
Born 1967
First program edited in 1982
Windows specialist
C language and assembler
Webmaster
In charge of research
olivier@myriad-online.com |
Sylvie
Ricard
Born 1970
Joined the team in 2001
In charge of order processing and
delivery
Public relations
Web referencing
sylvie@myriad-online.com |
Our
credo
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Since 1982 as free-lance programmers, our sphere
of activity has
always been music, graphics and multimedia. In
1996, we decided to
use the Internet as a medium to distribute our
products
worldwide.
We immediately adopted the shareware system
(try-before-you-buy)
because it appeared to be in line with our
processes.
Richness of contacts we established with
thousands of passionate
users led us quickly to set up a special way of
working, based on
cooperation.
We centralize all users' ideas and suggestions in
order to add
new features continuously. A Democratic
Workshop
enables everyone to view the work in progress, ask
for an
enhancement, and vote for suggestions already made
by other
users.
Each demand, even very specific, is taken into
account: only the
users' enthusiasm and the project feasibility are
important.
It already resulted, for example, in implementing
Shape-note and
Gregorian notations, Virtual
Singer, street organ
cards printout, tablatures for guitar, banjo,
dulcimer, harmonica,
accordion and others...
Some products, like the GOLD Sound
Database, are the
direct result af an active collaboration from
users: many sound
they collected and recorder have been included in
this sound bank,
in order to provide more versatility and variety.
Around these programs, a real community has been
formed,
gathering over 90 different nationalities,
speaking freely on the
message board.
Translations in different languages and
beta-tests are performed
by teams of volunteers, who validate the program
enhancements and
report problems. Permanently, parts of the Web
site are dedicated
to these teams, in order to help them to work
together.
In counterpart, we are bound to distribute these
products at a
small price, and provide the new versions in free
download on this
Website.
This work takes our whole time, so updates are
frequent: a new
version is released about each three months.
A music
contest has been
set up, to help the creators to present their
pieces and to spread
them via our Website. Access is open to everyone.
The success of this uncommon application of
cooperative work
proves anyway that involving actively users
in the evolution
process of a software program constitutes the best
insurance for a
reliable, long-lasting and well-suited tool.
The whole Myriad team wishes you long hours of
creative
work.
The Shareware
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The shareware system is an alternative to the
common software
distribution process. It doesn't need expensive
advertisement or
sale structure and allows independent programmers
or small companies (like ours) to put on the
international market interesting
and original solutions, at a very attractive
price.
From the user's point of view, advantages are
also obvious. By
letting you try the software before buying it, you
are sure to
purchase only products that match your
requirements. Above this,
your remarks and suggestions are really listened,
without being
filtered by several layers of customer services
set up by the
giants of the software industry, sometimes costly
and often not
very competent.
If you still hesitate to pay your fee, answer
frankly these two
questions:
- If I erase the software from my hard disk,
will I miss it?
- Does the registration fee seem just in
comparison with the
services the software provides?
If you answered "yes" to these two questions, you
don't have to
hesitate anymore. It seems that you must pay for the
product you
are using, and, believe us, you won't be sorry to do
it.
The whole team wishes you a lot of creative work.
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