--- In [email protected], Robin Berjon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Neumann wrote: > > my guess is that it changes nothing. Adobe is such a big company - > > they will push both technologies. It will be competition between > > Flash and SVG within one company ... If they are smart, they would > > produce a viewer that supports both SVG and Flash or use the Flash > > authoring system to also author SVG. > > I think that's too simplistic a view, there isn't much value in swapping > $3.4 billion in stock to just have the superposition of two companies > and drop a few products. I would expect: > > - SVG support from Flash MX (or whatever it'll be called) > - SVG support in the Flash plugin and/or Reader > - a serious foray into the mobile space (I'm surprised Adobe didn't buy > Ikivo at the same time, they'd have a huge majority mobile > market-share if they did) > - merging of GoLive's cool mobile functionality into Dreamweaver > - the extinction of Freehand and Fireworks > - merger of Macromedia's server tools (if there's anything there to be > salvaged) into Document Server or other Adobe server products > > Note that I'm not privvy to the internals at all and this is of course > entirely speculative. It's just that there's huge value to be milked > from this consolidation, and it would seem a bit daft from Adobe not to > take advantage of it to make more money and to build an impregnable > fortification against Microsoft's upcoming forays into this space. But > then, big companies are daft sometimes :) > > -- > Robin Berjon > Research Scientist > Expway, http://expway.com/
Andreas, I'd agree that it changes nothing. opinion is divided if adobe pushed svg technology after svg had prevented ms's vml. If you consider e.g. asv's printing support one may get convinced adobe took care that svg wouldn't get strong enough to interfere with the pdf business model. What's the profit pushing svg to competition with the flash business model within the same company? Just my humble opinion and viewpoint. Paul ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
