"We know about the concerns of Uniview users regarding the insolvency of SCISS. ZEISS sold many Uniview licenses. Our users are affected by the SCISS insolvency as well as all other users.

Many of the Uniview users may know that ZEISS acquired the Uniview source code from SCISS more than a year ago with the intention to develop it further and to merge it with our 3D Planetarium. In the meantime, ZEISS also acquired or cleared most of the rights of third parties, which form immanent components of the software. The next logical step will be to establish a server that provides Geoscope data and others.

In view of the insolvency, ZEISS wants to bring this step forward as quickly as possible and make the data freely available to all Uniview users, not only to ZEISS customers. This is important for our Uniview customers. But we will invite all users to use the server. We expect the traffic costs to remain manageable and we expect the openness for all users to remain in the future.

ZEISS believes that the owners of rights to parts of the data will agree to this step. The new server shall be up and running before the SCISS server will be shut down. With this step, ZEISS also want to create further support possibilities. ZEISS is open to suggestions from the community about the future scope and content of this service."