I'm very sorry to hear about Gordon.  I've had some very pleasant dealings
with him over the years.  He was always a friendly, generous, helpful,
person and he will be sorely missed.  My sympathy to his family.

John

At 11/24/98 09:13 AM , Ken Paul wrote:
>For those of you who may not know, Gordon Croston of Genesee Software, Inc.
>died on Tuesday, November 3rd from complications due to fighting melanoma.
>Gordon was 43 years young and leaves behind two boys (9 & 10) who will be
>taken care of by his ex-wife.
>
>Gordon started working with HP3000s while in Calgary, Alberta Canada and
>started a company called TPS and sold a product called Maui Vision which
>competed with Reveal from OPIN and Vista from Quest.  He moved to the
>Denver area in 1992 where I met him at a RMRUG meeting.  He quickly became
>a fellow board member of the Users Group.  He acquired Genesee Software
>from Bob Andrews (formerly of DISC) and started selling PostHaste (e-mail
>on the 3000) as well as MailMessenger (gateways from PostHaste and HPDesk
>to other e-mail systems) and MailEmpower.
>
>Gordon asked me (through a friend) if I would take over his company after
>his death.  Things have been very overwhelming since his death and I still
>do not know the current state of everything.  I have no intention of
>leaving Adager but I would like to do what ever I can for Gordon, his two
>boys and his customers.  Both PostHaste and HPDesk utilize IMAGE databases
>so this part of the product I have no trouble supporting.  E-mail and
>gateways are another matter, however, and I am definitely in over my head.
>I did call Chris Bartram of 3k Associates and told him of the news and
>mentioned the possibility of one option of transitioning the customers over
>to his products.  I have no idea if Gordon's products are Y2K compliant and
>so needless to say the questions far out weigh the answers right now.
>
>I am asking for several things from the collective group of HP3000-L:
>
>1)  That you keep Gordon and his family in your thoughts.
>
>2)  That you spread the word to any clients/users/customers who may not know.
>
>3)  That you let me know if you have any knowledge of these products which
>may help me better support the customers.
>
>Please remember that Adager is NOT getting into the e-mail software
>business.  I am doing this on my own in order to help out a friend and to
>also help his HP3000 customers so that they are not left high and dry and
>left with a bad taste in their mouth as it relates to the HP3000.
>
>I apologize to anyone who has already been inconvenienced by this during
>the transition phase and also to anyone who may be inconvenienced in the
>future because of this but know that I am doing my best in a very difficult
>situation.
>
>I also apologize to any members of the list who feel that this is a waste
>of bandwidth.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Ken Paul
>
>P.S. I'm not sure how long Genesee's current phone number will be available
>and forwarded to my number so please feel free to call me direct at (303)
>694-0920.
>

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John Korb                            email: [log in to unmask]
Innovative Software Solutions, Inc.

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