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.

Calzada Media wishes everyone a very Happy New Year with best wishes for a happy, fun and prosperous 2024!

Merry Christmas from everyone at Calzada Media.

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.