As I said both in my post and in my response to another comment, this was intended to allay some users' concerns that Zondervan's change in policy somehow signaled a change in their relationship with us. I just thought the "party like its 1999" crack was clever. What can I say? I grew up in the eighties! ;-)

Smile? Why? Quality materials have not been easily asssible to a lot of people for 10 years! IMHO Zondervan should have been licensing these products ages ago to several Windows Bible Programs, because Pradis has always been a priorietary barrier.

We should be all smiling because hopefully this will add further momentum to getting lots of quality materials out in multiple mediums, including Accordance, Logos, PC Study Bible, Bibleworks, etc.  We need people studying the Bible in as many ways as possible. The software is just a tool. Accordance is a great tool and I hope that many more materials comes to it, but I will never smile if these materials are only available on Accordance or any other Bible program I own.

Wondering why these questions would even come up, I went back and read both companies' announcements again. Zondervan's press release makes it clear that they intend to license multiple "search engines," while the software developer's announcement speaks of Zondervan "changing" and "moving" to that company's product as "their new platform." I trust the difference in language is the result of innocent enthusiasm rather than deliberate marketing spin, but it did create concern on the part of some users and I felt the need to quiet those concerns. Once again, Zondervan's decision to begin new partnerships in no way affects our longstanding partnership with them.