Pepperwhite Map OCX

Does anyone know what happened to Pepperwhite? (Pepperwhite Street Map OCX / ActiveX geocoder and mapping component for Visual Basic Delphi VC++ and ASP (http://www.pepperwhite.com))

They just seemed to drop off the map about a year ago.

Did you try their phone number and e-mails?

I remember people saying that pre-sales support was spotty.. but that they would get back to customers. I got the impression it might have been one guy and he was overwhelmed.

Eric

Yes. We did regular business with them for several years, but around June of last year all the phone msg and email message boxes filled up. Their last map data CD update was in 2005. It's too bad, they had a few shortcomings but it was extremely fast and versatile.

Does the whois information for the pepperwhite.com domain help?

WHOIS domain registration information results for pepperwhite.com from Network Solutions (http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=pepperwhite.com)

Administrative Contact :
Sammartino, Tony
tony@pepperwhite.com
PO BOX 1084
MEDFORD, NJ 08055-6084
US
Phone: 800-825-8630
Fax: 609-714-8585

Technical Contact :
User, Remove
bob@void.com
1-51-1 Hatsudai Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, Tokyo 34471
JP
Phone: +81 3-5358-3601
Fax: 999 999 9999

Maybe you can find out who owns the company and offer to buy the assets..

Eric

Thanks Eric, we'd actually talked about that as a possibility. I'll represent that idea our owners.

Could this be the same Tony Sammartino?

Obituaries | philly.com (http://obits.mlive.com/Philly/DeathNotices.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=106724256)

Eric

Last time anything was recieved from pepperwhite at this company was around november 2007, anybody else heard were this guy is at. it's only 1 guy

no this Obituaries | philly.com (http://obits.mlive.com/Philly/DeathNotices.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=106724256) isn't him. I think he was in his late 30s.