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In my (non-tax) day job I saw from the inside what happened to a (non-tax) software company acquired in 2004 by the same Dutch conglomerate that acquired ATX in 2006. The focus changed to extracting short-term revenues, ignoring quality of the product. Six years later the Dutch conglomerate sold the company it had acquired, after almost all the talented developers had left. If ATX is following the same trajectory as this other unfortunate software company, it's nearly due for sale to a buyer who will acquire it just for the name and the customer base, and who will have to essentially rewrite the software from the ground up. In my side job as tax preparer I've used ATX PRS-11 since 2003...until this year. It was the steadily increasing price that pushed me away, but these reports of low quality make me feel better about my decision.

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