CYRANO
When we use CYRANO, in all caps, we are referring to the (now defunct) French Cyrano SA group of companies. The UK and US Cyrano offices were run as seperate companies owned by the French parent company.
CYRANO were the original sponsors of the OpenSTA project, they released the OpenSTA source and created the OpenSTA project in October of 2001. OpenSTA.com was run by CYRANO and contained details of their commercial offerings based around OpenSTA, these included the CommercialModules, hardcopy documentation, media, training and support offerings. The company CYRANO was formed from the merger of PerformanceSoftware and IMM.
When CYRANO ceased to exist in its original International form the liquidators split apart and sold off many of the assets. This allowed the continued operation of CyranoInc (the US operation) and the creation of Quotium, unfortunately these companies have legal disputes over the ownership of many of CYRANO's assets (including the OpenSTA copyrights). The UK operation, which included the development division where much of OpenSTA was created, was completely liquidated and disbanded. Some of the developers from the French development team went to work for Quotium.
Update: Quotium have secured possession of all rights to the name Cyrano, this means that CyranoInc is no longer trading under that name and the cyrano.com DNS now redirects to Quotium.com. How this agreement came about and what effect (if any) this might have on the OpenSTA project are unknown - there is a strong possibility that we may never know.
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