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Adobe and Macromedia Shareholders Approve Merger

Posted by Zonk on from the so-happy-together dept.

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."

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  1. With as little information as we've got? by lostchicken · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At this point, there's very little information available about which products will and will not survive the merger. Why would any shareholder approve a merger when all he/she knew was that the two companies were to merge?

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  2. wise tactical move by apt_user · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This can only be a maneuver to prevent microsoft from buying either one of the two companies. Combined they dont necessarily stand to make more money than they would alone, but it creates a united front to keep microsoft out of their media software niche.

  3. Hooray! by nmb3000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now we can have a Flash ad with an embedded PDF document which plays a RealMedia clip!

    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?

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  4. Re:Imagine... by dnoyeb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a programmer, its hard to imagine a design that allows a piece of software I launch to assist my program, crash my program, or bring my program to complete uselessness. This was the standard in windows 3.1 days.

    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?

  5. Simple by melted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Adobe vs. Microsoft.

    AFAIK Microsoft is getting their PDF and Flash replacements ready as we speak.

    http://www.actionscript.com/archives/00000587.html
    http://www.pdfzone.com/category2/0,1874,1836049,00 .asp