>Personally I think this could be great for all concerned. I've seen this
>before, most notably with Symantec purchasing products/companies and
>strengthening them in the marketplace.
On the same token, I've seen great programs specifically purchased and
merged with just to annihilate them. I used to make my living as a Clipper
developer, from Nantucket Software. Then Computer Associates came a long,
bought them out, promising to take Clipper to the next level. Is there any
such beast as Clipper these days? Nope. Think a Clipper developer could
land a job doing Clipper development? Not likely. They were forced to
give up on the language and environment of their choice in order to keep an
income coming in.
Not that this happens in all cases, but as you pointed oput an example of
bright shining hope, there are also examples of dark gloomy days.
My problem or fear about this merger is the perception of ColdFusion. As
it stands now, I spend a lot of time fighting battles, trying to explain
and justify our use of ColdFusion. Our IT director is not a fan, and while
I've been able to keep him convinced that CF is the better tool for the
job, he has a perception that CF is a toy in comparison to some of the
other technologies available. It's not as popular, thus harder to
support. Not as many developers are available for, so more difficult to
maintain.
Now that a multimedia company owns CF, what's that perception going to
be. You can all state that MM is much more than multimedia, but face
it. Their flagship products are Flash, Director, Fireworks, Dreamweaver
and FreeHand. Tools for creating, designing, drawing, producing multimedia
in one form or another. (multimedia is more than just streaming videos,
it's all about presentation across multiple media mediums. Not necessarily
data, but presentation.) And as far as Ulyradev is concerned, go out onto
the masses and ask them about Ultradev. Most of them will just stare at
you as if you've grown an extra arm from your forehead. But ask them if
they know flash? Or shockwave?and the name Macromedia will soon be answered.
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