My 2
cents…
It depends on
what those in charge saw as viable reasons to buy Macromedia. If
there is a particular product(s) they are interested in (or interested in
eliminating), then that will be a factor that we probably don’t have much
info on yet.
I was a part of
one merger/acquisition a few years ago that was anything but
friendly. From the outside it was very similar – one bigger company
buying a smaller one, to become this new entity, etc. The reality of
it was, the new parent company was only interested in 1 of our products,
and everything else (and everyone else working on other things) was done
away with in the coming months. So I feel it’s really tough to tell
why one company buys another, until we actually see what their intentions
are.
Has anyone else
noticed that the MM “regulars” on this list haven’t posted anything about
this topic on their blogs yet? Ben Forta made mention of the
acquisition, but did not add any additional commentary. I did just
find SOME info in Mike Chambers blog (http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/007504.cfm)
about this, but a lot of it reads like official Stockholderspeak.
But that’s all I’ve seen thus far.
Nolan
Erck
Web
Developer/Programmer
Schools Financial Credit Union
(916) 569-5409
Office
(916) 569-2024 Fax
www.schools.org
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From:
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Rawlinson
Sent:
Monday, April 18,
2005 9:44
AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CFCDev] A sad, sad
day
I agree with
Ryan. I personally don't think, as a CF developer, that this news
really impacts my future much.
I'm not worried at all.
First it
was Allaire, then Macromedia, next Adobe. CF will continue on as is
I am sure. Adobe has no compelling reason
to do away with it -
and only positive reasons to keep it.
It doesn't have any competing
technolgies already under the adobe umbrella - and will simply give Adobe
a entry in a new market.
Bill
On
4/18/05, Ryan
Duckworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I think that
most ColdFusion programmers / managers are overreacting to
this
announcement.
The programmers of CF 7 (BlackStone) are not likely
to be let go because
of this.
Let's suppose that I was a manager
at Adobe, I would see ColdFusion as a
great revenue stream, and I
would want to retain those programmers and
project managers that have
grown the subscriber base.
I think we as a community would be best
off to be optimistic about this
because the individuals who built CF 6
& 7 are likely to still be in
charge of future releases.
In
addition, I think it would be in the best interest of Adobe to
keep
major players such as Ben Forta and many others actively involved
in the
CF community & releases.
Ryan Duckworth
Macromedia
ColdFusion Certified Professional
Uhlig
Communications
10983 Granada Lane
Overland Park, KS
66211
(913)
754-4272
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