On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Allan Atherton wrote:
> Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote: > > MX is a good package, my only concern is that M$ will try to buy them > > out (there is a real possibility this could happen as it would put M$ > > in a strong strategic position by doing so). So far, they have resisted > > the overtures from the Dark Side, but if Adobe pushes GoLive, etc. into > > Apple's hands it could happen. > > Is that the buzz? I have been using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Trial the past > three weeks to update my three InsightBB websites, and like it enough to buy > it. I looked at Adobe GoLive Trial briefly and didn't like it as much. So MS > might buy Macromedia and Apple might buy Adobe? Does that mean Mac users > ought to go with GoLive? It's all pretty rampant rumour. HP are cash-rich, MS are cash-rich. Sun's price is low, Apple are suggested to need a big kick, Macromedia and Adobe are looking suscepptible, Borland are cash-rich [I think]. Dell are also rumoured to be looking to get into the high-end server market properly. So there have been quite a few suggested options as to how things would go. One was to suggest Sun and Apple would merge, whereas Dell are rumoured to be aquiring Sun and MS and EA Arts are supposed to be looking into Sega. Nintendo are also susceptible. The only company who seem to not get too mentioned are IBM :) Except that they're meant to have bought Rational as a defensive measure to stop MS aquiring them. So as you can see, there's so much rumour around that more than even usual is probably based on random noise. > Another rumor I just heard is that Apple is going to drop CD-RWs and only > provide DVD-RWs. Like I have no interest in movies, but should have gotten a > Super drive in my new computer instead of a Combo drive. For some reason I assumed a DVD-RW would be able to write too a CD-R. :) Hen | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
