Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia?

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 20, 2005 @02:33PM from the money-fixes-everything dept.

option8 writes "According to John Dvorak the reasoning behind Adobe's recent (and to many, surprising) purchase of Macromedia for $3.4 billion is that Adobe was afraid Microsoft was going to do it first. An interesting look at the thinking and attitude of Adobe from someone who's been following them for a long time. From TFA: "So, mostly out of fear, Adobe buys its main competitor and now must shoehorn the company into its unfortunate not-invented-here corporate culture. (This aspect of Adobe is another story in itself.)""

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Re:MS Paint by Directrix1 · 2005-04-20 17:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yeah, and they'd just rip off the code anyways and dub it their own.

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Re:The Ballad of Big Adobe. by DroopyStonx · 2005-04-21 08:13 · Score: 0, Flamebait

thanks for the best laugh I've had all week!

Damn, you must have a pretty dull life!

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