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5.7.1. History and Future

Sniff was developed in the research laboratory of the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) where it has been used on its own development for about one year.

Two public domain beta releases of Sniff have been available for some months. These releases were applied for professional software development at several places.

This is the announcement of release 1.6. Version 1.6 is the last public domain release. It has lost the beta.

Now that Sniff is almost finished I want to free myself from the time consuming porting, support, and maintenance chore. For this reason UBS cooperates with takeFive - a Salzburg based software house - which will produce the first commercial release of Sniff until end of year. A prerequisite for this cooperation is that universities get further commercial releases of Sniff almost for free and research laboratories will get Sniff at a fraction of the commercial price.