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Consolidation and nothing moreConsolidation and nothing morePosted Apr 19, 2005 16:16 UTC (Tue) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)Parent article: Macromedia, Adobe make peace for bigger fight (News.com)
People are reading so much into this, as they do with any merger, but its just consolidation. Macromedia was slowly and surely losing a reason to exist as an independent entity, it had shot its wad with Flash.
Larry Ellison is right, the number of firms selling software is going to rapidly decrease over the next decade.
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Consolidation and nothing more Posted Apr 19, 2005 17:51 UTC (Tue) by havoc (guest, #2261) [Link] I *want* to disagree. I don't know if I'm being honest with myself, or not....
Adobe, early on, was a huge innovator in graphics. Once they got to be Monster Co., the innovation slowed to a crawl. They've been copying Macromedia's innovations for 10 years. Macromedia, on the other hand, was slow to adapt to the world of the web. Out of shear terror and desperation, Macromedia has innovated just to stay alive. Adobe desperately needs that innovative spirit to stay ahead of Microsoft's assault on Adobe's home turf.
Unfortunately, acquisitions of innovation almost always kill of the innovation of the acquired.
Adobe is recession proof, for now Posted Apr 19, 2005 22:58 UTC (Tue) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link] I agree that Adobe has done little innovation, but tending to that cash cow (Photoshop) is hard work.
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