Mage UK

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Mage UK Ltd

Type	Limited
Founded	Kingston upon Hull, England (December 12, 2002) (Under the name Mage Software) Renamed to Mage UK and registered as a limited company on (February 25, 2007)
Headquarters	Kingston upon Hull, England
Key people	Rudi Visser, Founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Technical Officer Pauline Wilson, CFO Tania Wilson, CEO Craig Pearson, Graphic Director Malcolm Hallett, PR Director
Industry	Computer software [1] Research and development Computer hardware (Future)
Products	MageIM (Instant Messenger) MageBB (Bulletin Board) Mucca (IRC Client) ^[1] Architect Studio (\|Multi-Language IDE) ^[1] MageCRM (Business Tools)
Employees	9 (2007)
Website	www.mageuk.com

Mage UK Ltd is a multinational limited company based in the United Kingdom, and Spain. Its primary focus is to be a technology group consisting of multiple sub-brands (For example, Mage Web Solutions), and to develop software for both the home and business^[2].

Mage UK is headquartered in Kingston upon Hull, England, their most successful products to date are MageIM and MageBB, both being served at a high rate to the public. Both products are available free of charge, and hence do not impact Mage UK's revenue in a positive nor negative way.

Upon offering computer-based educational schemes to employees of partner companies, Mage UK has started awarding Mage CTE (Mage Certified Technlogy Expert) to volunteers that contribute to Mage UK communities with their knowledge of Mage UK Products, and computing technology in general^[3]^[4]. It has been recently released that Mage UK will soon be offering online courses to the general public too^[3].

Charities are a focus for Mage UK, since working with Dove House Hospice on the Dove House Day website^[2]^[5].

1 History
2 Product / Service Divisions
3 References

[edit] History

[edit] 2002: Founding

After noticing a gap in the market for educational products, Rudi Visser and Lee Mytton set out to produce software in order to fulfill the needs. Mage Software was thus founded, producing software for the purpose of educating students in United Kingdom Secondary schools (Mainly Science applications)^[6]. The second product produced was a scientific Artificial Intelligence application, CDMuser (the name of which has no meaning). The product was not released, and was feature incomplete (Voice recognition was planned but never emerged)^[6].

[edit] 2005-2006: Web Software

Mage Software soon realised the potential of the internet, and started producing software for it in a generalised way. Late 2005, two products were released, MageBB and MageIM^[6]. MageBB was a commercial bulletin board system released in December 2005. MageIM's Client Application was released for free; with the server application being released under a commercial license only to limited sources that met specific requirements set my Mage Software. Both web applications mentioned are still in development to date.

[edit] Early 2007: Turning Point

Mage Software's name was no longer relevant, as the company did not only sell software to end-users. In February 2007, the decision was made by both Rudi Visser and Craig Pearson to change the company's name to Mage UK, which would be a technology group consisting of sub-companies/sub-brands, including Mage Software. The company 'Mage UK Ltd' was registered in England and Wales on February 25 2007 as a limited company.

At this point, new sub-brands were created under the names Mage Software, Mage Web Solutions and Mage Internet. As notably taken from the names, the 2 internet brands, Mage Web Solutions and Mage Internet, went "head-first" into the internet market, providing Web Design and Development and Internet Connections respectively.

Mage UK's mission for 2007 was significantly different from Mage Software's original one.

Mage UK's primary focusses in 2007 are in Bespoke Software development, and Internet Solutions, both for our clients. Mage UK soon plans to take over a new role in Hardware distribution, and low-level systems (ie. Operating Systems).^[2]

[edit] Mid 2007: Low-Level Work

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Rudi Visser, after research continuing for months, has announced that Mage UK will soon be entering the operating system market, producing a 'new-age' way of development, and a new way of using your computer system^[7].

[edit] Product / Service Divisions

[edit] Internet Services

Mage UK's Web Development, Design and Hosting division, Mage Web Solutions, is currently offering services of hosting, design and development to businesses wanting websites^[8]. Mage Web Solutions does not currently offer any software products or fixed price packages.

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Mage Internet is Mage UK's internet service provider, offering an internet service to users with a BT line in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Business Solutions

MageCRM is currently Mage UK's only purely business oriented software product^[7]. MageCRM offers the following features^[7]:

Sales Tracking
Workgroup Management
Task Management
Meeting Manager
Accounting/Reports
Contact Manager
And More...

Mage UK also offers a Bespoke Software Development service to businesses.

Mage Software can create your ultimate software package, whatever your needs. Should you want a database-driven POS, to an internal instant messenger, you may contact us for a free quote.^[7]

[edit] Web Software

MageBB and MageIM are the only 'Home Worthy' web services that are notable as of now (Excluding Mucca). Both software products are available free of charge and can be downloaded from the Mage UK Website^[6]. MageIM was historically written in Visual Basic 6, and released as Open Source Software. Early 2007, the software was re-written in the C# language, however was never fully released. The proposed license for the C# version was also open source, however the current released version is closed source (Commercial Licenses may be available)^[9].

[edit] Developer Tools

Mage Software is planned to release a new wave of development tools in the form of Architect Suite^[1]. These tools will provide an Integrated Development Environment for multiple languages, and will have features such as an intellisense-like system, syntax highlighting, and a graphical editor. Architect Suite will be the flagship product of Mage UK's new entry in the Development Tool market, and is going to be entering right alongside Microsoft Visual Studio, SharpDevelop and Dreamweaver (For its web technology interface)^[10].