In an unusual turn of events, Avionté, a provider of staffing industry technology solutions, has issued a press release slamming TempWorks software for the copyright infringement lawsuit the latter filed against them.
“We absolutely did not copy source code from TempWorks,” asserts John Long, CEO of Avionté. “We used our extensive knowledge of the staffing industry, the products supporting the industry and our previous experience to develop the cleanest, most user-friendly system on the market. Avionté’s software is drastically different than anything else out there. Within seconds, people will see this difference.”
Long went on to define three key points that differentiate TempWorks from Avionté:
* The Avionté and TempWorks applications operate on entirely different platforms and programming languages.
* The Avionté front-office and back-office system is built on Microsoft’s .Net platform and C#.
* TempWorks’ front- and back-office application utilizes Microsoft Access.
“This allegation is exceedingly offensive to me and my colleagues,” said Samar Basnet, Chief Software Architect for Avionté. “I have personally written the majority of the code and overseen all code put into our application. To have someone demean my years of long hours, late nights, research and extremely hard work is personally disturbing.”
Long went on to say, “”We really had no choice but to file suit first against TempWorks for defamation and tortious interference with contractual relations on September 29, 2008. I view this as a public relations stunt by TempWorks to simply slow down a competitor that is years ahead of them in development. I am eager for our day in court.”
Let the battle of the press releases begin.
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