In an email to the BitC developer mailing list Jonathon Shapiro announced that he is wrapping up development on BitC.

Some of you will have noticed that I have been conspicuously silent over the

last three or four weeks. I have spent much of that time airborne, or in

interviews at Google, Microsoft, and DARPA.

After a fair bit of soul-searching, I have decided to accept a fairly senior

position at Microsoft associated with the Midori project. The current plan

has me starting there at the beginning of August.

This means, among other issues, that we will be wrapping up the BitC

project. While I will be trying hard to get all of the planned features for

the initial release completed before I depart, that may not turn out to be

possible. I have asked Microsoft if we can keep the various web sites alive

for archival access and the mailing list, but I should also ask if there is

anyone out there who would be interested to assume more active stewardship

of the BitC project. I emphasize that unless management at Microsoft

concludes otherwise, I will no longer be able to participate actively in

these discussions. Also, in the event that MS does not permit archival

maintainence, would somebody be willing to take over hosting the content?

I have also asked MS for permission to publish papers about BitC on my own

time. They granted this permission to Swaroop, and I see no reason that they

should decline this, but my position there is a bit more sensitive and they

may see issues that I do not.

In the meantime, I need to get back to packing and hacking.

Best regards,

Jonathan