The Road Ahead

Many longstanding applications have roots in now surpassed technologies, practices and programming languages. Work on Camino and its' various dependencies started over fifteen years ago and was written in the language we were most familar with, Visual Basic.NET (VB).

A lot has changed since the first working builds of Camino, and VB is now effectively a dead language. Microsoft has ceased development and there will no additional features will be added to it. It will remain support for at least until 2029, but anything written in it will be unable to leverage new tools and functionality within the .NET architecture.

Consequently, we have engaged in a long-term program of converting and rebuilding our applications and libraries to C#. This was not something that could be done overnight and has had to be done alongside the normal day-to-day upgrades, updates and application release schedule.

With the 19th July 2024 release of Camino (version 2.5.3555), it and all Calzada Media dependent libraries are now written in C#. In the coming weeks, we will be rolling out this version to active Camino customers.

This isn't the end of development for Camino. We've got a significant number of planned upgrades and new features we are planning to roll out in the coming months.

Calzada Media services are unaffected by the ongoing worldwide IT problems. If you are affected, we recommend you check any available status or service information page for your provider.

Sadly, we are ceasing the sale of new Hosted Exchange services with immediate effect (20th September 2022). Hosted Exchange services for existing customers will be discontinued on the 15th November 2022.

This is not a decision we have made lightly nor wish to have made. Regrettably, our Hosted Exchange service provider is substantially increasing costs for the second year running and it is no longer financially viable for us to continue to offer Hosted Exchange services.

We have attempt to find alternative providers within the UK, but without any success.

We will be contacting all affected customers this week and will work with them to find a different provider or an alternative solution.

We send our deepest condolences to the Royal Family following the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. On the day of the state funeral, 19th September 2022, Calzada Media will be closed as a mark of respect.

We appreciate that that may not be possible for some of our customers. As with any other bank holiday, we still provide emergency support cover should it be necessary. If any of our customers have an issue or question they may be raised using a support ticket. Emergencies will be addressed as soon as possible with any other business deferred until 20th September 2022.

We've made some changes to our Privacy Policy in light of recent updates to our website.

Our updated website includes a new security log that replaces the previous login log. The new security log records all core security actions for a user (customer) account including logons, password resets, status changes and agreements to legal documents and policies. The Privacy Policy has been revised to reflect these changes. As before, all account holders are able to view their log entries through MyAccount.