Adobe and Macromedia Shareholders Approve Merger 169
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."
With as little information as we've got? (Score:4, Interesting)
wise tactical move (Score:5, Interesting)
Hooray! (Score:5, Interesting)
Besides, "a real powerhouse competitor to Microsoft"? Um.... Microsoft makes office software and operating systems. They make almost zippo from Windows Media Player. Two big multimedia-oriented companies and a pain-in-the-ass-that-just-won't-die video tech company have what influence on Microsoft?
Normal patterns in a maturing industry (Score:2, Interesting)
I think our real fear should not be of this kind of commercial merger squashing innovation, but of our screwed up patent system strangling the type of innovation that started the technology and information revolution.
cheers, ben
Re:Imagine... (Score:5, Interesting)
WTF does acrobat bring IE and Firefox both to their knees. And why cant you cancel it? Why is it allowed to lock up the browser, and every instance of it completely?
What is wrong with that architecture, and why do both IE and Firefox follow the same flawed model? Or is this some windows architectural thing getting involved?
Re:counterweight? .. or easier target? (Score:2, Interesting)
Perhaps, but PDF is an open standard, and ubiquitous. Search for a document on Google and you get a screen full of PDF links. You want to download a manual for your new sound card? PDF. You want to print up a corporate shareholder report? It's probably a PDF.
PDF isn't going anywhere.
Simple (Score:4, Interesting)
AFAIK Microsoft is getting their PDF and Flash replacements ready as we speak.
http://www.actionscript.com/archives/00000587.htm
http://www.pdfzone.com/category2/0,1874,1836049,0
SVG (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Hooray! (Score:2, Interesting)
I guess you don't see any links there, but I do.
Re:competition (Score:2, Interesting)
Of course, it sounds like Corel's going to try targeting Draw more toward corporate users, which will further lower printers' opinions of CorelDRAW designers (as inept hacks), even though DRAW has a suprising array of prepress tools and very good native PDF support built in.
From what I hear (through the rumor mill), Adobe's liable to kill Freehand, among other things, which is another comparable-if-not-greater app to Illustrator.
Re:counterweight? .. or easier target? (Score:1, Interesting)