Dear Norfox Users,
We at IndySoft
would like to welcome you to the IndySoft family. As you may or may not
know by now, Norfox was acquired by IndySoft in early December of 2003. Since
then, we have been hard at work determining an exact plan to give you the best
possible support for your existing Norfox products and at the same time provide
you with the most powerful, cutting edge calibration management technology found
today.
For those of you not familiar with IndySoft, let us provide
some background. Since 1993, our development team has been writing
software solutions for commercial and industrial calibration labs. In 1997,
IndySoft was formed with a primary focus on providing best-in-class calibration
management software for large Enterprise customers and commercial calibration
laboratories. We have been very successful achieving this goal and today have
thousands of extremely satisfied end users. In fact, we currently support nearly
5 times the number of installed users as did Norfox at the time of our
purchase. IndySoft is based out of Greenville, SC and we have satellite
offices in Georgia and Arizona. With distributors covering the United
States, Canada, and Europe, we will be able to provide your company with
excellent support and training opportunities around the
globe.
Originally, before reviewing the products from Norfox, we
planned on providing support for both the LabMate 3.5™ and Visual Labmate™ product
lines (please see our original press release on our web site). However, after an
in depth study of both products, we decided to continue support for the LabMate
3.5™ product line and drop support for Visual Labmate™. Our decision was
based on several factors -- one being that there are only a handful of users
actually using Visual LabMate™ successfully. Most Norfox users continue to use
the older LabMate 3.5™ product and we want to concentrate our efforts where they
will be most effective. Unfortunately, the Visual Labmate™ architecture uses
outdated technology and performs poorly when compared to IndySoft's software
requirements -- therefore we simply cannot justify future development on this
product.
We realize that many of the original Norfox customers have
been deprived of enhancements for a long period of time. IndySoft has plans to
change this. We hope you will find IndySoft to be a very different
software company with a refreshing take on software development. Our
flagship calibration management software, Gage InSite®, is more than able to
support your existing calibration management needs and is built on a platform
for the future. Besides selling support agreements for LabMate 3.5™, we are
also offering very attractive upgrade offers for Gage InSite for a limited time.
With these upgrades, IndySoft will convert all your LabMate™ data to Gage InSite
free of charge. Please contact the IndySoft sales department for more
details on these upgrade opportunities.
To start off 2004, we have
new releases of our entire suite of calibration products, including our flagship
Gage InSite 2004 product, Trend Analysis and Automated Uncertainty modules.
Also, we are releasing VisualCal™ - our new automated calibration procedure
software. Please see our website at
www.indysoft.com for details.
In closing, we must alert you that there are currently several organizations
selling support plans for the LabMate™ and Visual LabMate™ product lines.
Please be aware that none of these companies have legal access to any of the Norfox
source code and cannot offer any software fixes or license increases. If you
find anyone offering this type of support without our approval, we would greatly
appreciate it if you would let us know. As some customers have already
purchased support agreements, we would suggest asking for a refund if you were
not made aware of these facts upon sale of the support
agreement.
Thank you for your time. We are all extremely excited
about working with your company in the future. Please don't hesitate to give us
a call - we look forward to answering any questions you might have.