Adobe and Macromedia Shareholders Approve Merger

Steve Nixon wrote to mention a CRN article discussing the shareholder approval of a merger between Adobe and Macromedia. From the article: "The deal, announced in early April, is slated to close this fall pending government approval. On Thursday, the companies said nearly 99 percent of the outstanding Adobe and Macromedia shares voted were cast in favor of the deal. Adobe's powerful PDF franchise and Macromedia's ubiquitous Flash presence on PCs, Macs and other devices could make the combined company a prodigious counterweight even to Microsoft, several observers said."

Imagine...

[DrifterX79]

that one day soon we will have one company to blame for all those god awful, firefox slowing, IE crashing plug-ins. Not to mention on company to blame for the proliferation of flash adverts...

One more acquisition...

[g051051]

Now, they just need to buy/merge with Real, and you'd have a real powerhouse competitor to Microsoft.

Re:competition

[DrifterX79]

The competition will be much like this. If you want to do anything fancy graphically on the web you will choose MacroAdobe. If you want to have the defacto standard in visual media you will choose AdobeMedia. If you want the number one company for browser plugins required to view half the web...

Re:One more acquisition...

[iamwoodyjones]

I looked at Real's web site for the merger and it says

Merger is......buffering......

Once they do acquire real we can see our pdf's......buffering......

which might actually be better than that big duff with his arms outstretched and a bazillion plugins loading below him for 1/2 an hour

And We Shall Call It...

[WhiteWolf]

...Macrobe!

Re:With as little information as we've got?

[Trip Ericson]

It'$ not an ea$y que$tion to an$wer really, but I $uppo$e with $uffiient inve$tigation, we'll di$cover an an$wer.

Re:One more acquisition...

[fm6]

Bite your tongue! Two companies with fair-to-excellent software combining with a company that produces crap. Plus they rely too much on ethically questionable marketing.

Besides, competing with Microsoft isn't a matter of size. It's a matter of getting past Microsoft's control of the basic desktop.

Insiders report

[hobotron]

Insiders report they will collaborate on an exciting new standard of interoperability that will lag the complete shit out of your browser.

Re:Imagine...

[bergeron76]

Let's just hope they don't call the new joint company "AdMedia".

Or "MacrodobeMedia".

or... nevermind.

should save both companies a lot of money

[Scudsucker]

...if only because this means they wont be suing eachother on a quarterly basis.

Re:MACROMEDIA CANT PROGRAM X86_64 (AMD64) THEY SUC

[Anonymous Coward]

Can't you just run two instances of the 32-bit version?

Good!

[Guppy06]

Now I only have one corporation to hate on instead of two. This frees up hatred for new and upcoming businesses.