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Clint,
To quote someone from another
mailing list:
"Macromedia
employees cannot participate in these discussions given the merger terms. I
would imagine that the company entered a "quiet period" on Sat-Sun in regard to
the merger preventing all employees from commenting on any aspect of the merger
and the potential changes. Publicly disclosing information related to the merger
is a potential SEC violation, hence the internal
silence."
So I think what is
safe to say is that we'll not be gaining much response, much as I'm sure they'd
like to, from
anyone officially at
Macromedia.
I'd recommend
listening to the investors call; the details were on one of the press releases
and the call was
recorded. What's
clear is that the rumours of an Adobe / Macromedia merger have been around since
before
Flex was even a
concept ... one of the questions asked of the Adobe board is "why, when you have
been
publically against
acquisition of Macromedia in the past, does now seem like a good
time".
A recurrent theme in
terms of what Macromedia brings to Adobe, during the board meeting was
Breeze,
Flex/Coldfusion, Flash
Player and the mobile and devices strategy. So I don't think ANY of these
things
are going to disappear
anytime soon.
I'm going to blog
about this in much greater detail in the days ahead, but what's key that both
Adobe and
Macromedia are assaulting the
enterprise marketplace, and that by leveraging the Flash Player (the
centre of the Macromedia
ecosystem) against the PDF/Reader technologies (the centre of the
Adobe
ecosystem) they have, as the
CEO of Adobe commented that the "...combination of the Flash
Format
and Flash Player with PDF and
Reader, offers a technology platform that enables customers
and
partners to communicate
information in a much more effective way..."
Consistently, the synergy of
Flex and PDF for bringing together "enterprise document
workflow with enterprise
development and rich and interactive media", alongside
bringing
together the "asynchronous
capabilities of PDF forms" with the "real time collaboration
of
breeze", and the "development
of tools for content providers that target the Macromedia
mobile infrastructure and platform" all suggest that there are exciting times
ahead in bringing
together each organisation's enterprise
platforms.
Again, consistently, this is
cited not as a consolodation merger, but a strategic
merger
aimed at aligning 2 companies
that are "...no longer enemies because we aren't
directly
competing...", and the aim of
the merger is to achieve growth, particuarly it would
seem,
in the enterprise
marketplace.
There are going to be a hell
of a lot of people running around telling us why this marks the end
of
Flex, Coldfusion, Freehand,
Illustrator, etc, etc. Rather than worry about the sky falling,
I'm
more interested as to what
opportunities are going to be created for us...
"The art of progress is to
preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid
order."
Exciting times,
Steven
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Steven Webster
Technical
Director
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