Making Musical History

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Because NOTION requires only a laptop, possible users include schools and churches that can supplement live musicians with VirtuosoWorks' ready-to-conduct score files. NOTION for PC, out now, represents only 5% of planned offerings through 2006. Without offshore development, VirtuosoWorks wouldn't have got off the ground. Once home, the firm found that its operating costs shot up 92%. But the tiny company, with 33 employees, is poised to meet its year-end projection of $1.3 million in revenues and expects to break even by October 2006. Thanks to India, Lori and Ram have their business, and Jack has his toy. But for now, he's too busy in the theater. "I'd really like to go home and write my own music," he says, "stuff people call passé." Maybe. But VirtuosoWorks sure looks like the future.