Installer VISE

Steve Kiene, the founder of MindVision, had done software work in the area of data compression, producing the Application VISE executable compressor for the Mac platform and a disk compression software implementation; the latter was released as Stacker after having been acquired by Stac Electronics.{{cite magazine

|last1=Kiene

|first1=Steve

|last2=Mark

|first2=Dave

|year=1999

|magazine=MacTech

|title=A Chat With Steve Kiene

|url=http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.15/15.04/Apr99FactoryFloor/index.html

|volume=15

|issue=4

|accessdate=December 10, 2017

}}{{Primary source inline|date=April 2024}} Mindvision had been founded in 1987.{{cite web |title=[MD1] Installer VISE FREE to shareware/freeware authors |url=https://www.mactech.com/1998/04/28/md1-installer-vise-free-to-shareware-freeware-authors/ |website=MacTech.com |access-date=28 April 2024}} Installer VISE (which was first called Developer VISE) initially arose from some add-on software extensions that Kiene had developed for use with the Installer software from Apple.{{Primary source inline|date=April 2024}}

Originally created Mac-only, Installer VISE was one of the most popular installer makers for the platform around 2006 given its visual interface that made the software easy to use by nontechnical persons in addition to its extensive features. It was also popular among shareware and Carbon applications that required support for both Mac OS 9 and X.{{cite book |last1=Stauffer |first1=Todd |last2=McElhearn |first2=Kirk |title=MasteringTM Mac® OS X |date=20 February 2006 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-7821-5128-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=62xkJo6JXwAC |language=en}} By 2000 Apple themselves were using the software to package and update their own QuickTime product.{{cite web |title=Using MindVision's Installer VISE |url=http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.16/16.04/MindVisionInstaller/index.html |website=MacTech |access-date=28 April 2024}} Other noted users of the product included Adobe, Microsoft, Macintax, Netscape, BBEdit, Claris and Quicken.

In 1997 the software was a finalist in Macworld/MacTech magazines' Eddy Awards in the "MacTech Best Developer Tool" category.{{cite web |title=[MD1] Macworld/MacTech Eddy Award Finalists {{!}} MacTech |url=http://preserve.mactech.com/content/md1-macworldmactech-eddy-award-finalists-0 |website=preserve.mactech.com |access-date=28 April 2024}}

It also supported localization within a single package,{{cite book |last1=Esselink |first1=Bert |title=A Practical Guide to Localization |date=15 September 2000 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |isbn=978-90-272-9818-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WHwStYj70BQC |language=en}} supported AppleScript, and makes no use of Apple's in-built Installer app.{{cite book |last1=Landau |first1=Ted |last2=Frakes |first2=Dan |title=Mac OS X Help Line, Tiger Edition |date=20 December 2005 |publisher=Peachpit Press |isbn=978-0-13-270524-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vf4U4UkDANsC |language=en}} In 1998 Mindvision made the use of the product free for shareware software developers.

However, its popularity has waned on Mac OS X. VISE X, an installer maker designed to produce installers specifically for installing Mac OS X software, was released by MindVision Software in 2003.{{cite web

|title=Installer VISE For OS X Released

|date=November 24, 2003

|publisher=The Mac Observer

|url=https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Installer_VISE_For_OS_X_Released

|accessdate=December 10, 2017

}}

Quietly, without any press release, MindVision Software was acquired by Digital River in 2006. As of 2020, the software company seems to have closed down and the website is pointing to an e-commerce solution developed by Digital River, [http://www.mycommerce.com MyCommerce].

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