RE: Friam Digest, Vol 22, Issue 18

[Nick Thompson]

I would call 3.4 BILLION "focus".  But perhaps I am having  a scaling
problem.

Nick

Nicholas S. Thompson
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Clark University
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>    1. Re: Adobe acquires Macromedia (Owen Densmore)
>    2. Re: Adobe acquires Macromedia (Martin C. Martin)
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> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:07:30 -0600
> From: Owen Densmore <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Adobe acquires Macromedia
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> I suspect that's the end of anything good from Macromedia, alas.
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> Maybe we can get Adobe to open source Flash?  Adobe only cares about  
> Dream Weaver and getting back into the web publishing business, I  
> think.
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> Besides /. these are good:
> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/04/18/Adobe-Macromedia
> http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/04/18/macrodobia/
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> It likely end's any hope of Macromedia on the Mac too:
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?
> sid=146467&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=98&mode=thread&cid=12270952
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> -- Owen
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> On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:31 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
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> > Wow, Adobe sucks up Macromedia for 3.4 Billion. I didn't see that  
> > coming...
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> > http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/ 
> > adobe_macromedia.html
> > http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html
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> > -S
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> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:11:36 -0400
> From: "Martin C. Martin" <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Adobe acquires Macromedia
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> Actually, Adobe is focusing on Acrobat and business applications:
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> http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3860760
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> - Martin
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> Owen Densmore wrote:
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> > I suspect that's the end of anything good from Macromedia, alas.
> >
> > Maybe we can get Adobe to open source Flash?  Adobe only cares about  
> > Dream Weaver and getting back into the web publishing business, I

think.

> >
> > Besides /. these are good:
> > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/04/18/Adobe-Macromedia
> > http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/04/18/macrodobia/
> >
> > It likely end's any hope of Macromedia on the Mac too:
> > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?
> > sid=146467&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=98&mode=thread&cid=12270952
> >
> >     -- Owen
> >
> > Owen Densmore - http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com -  
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> > On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:31 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> >
> >> Wow, Adobe sucks up Macromedia for 3.4 Billion. I didn't see that  
> >> coming...
> >>
> >> http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/

adobe_macromedia.html

> >> http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html
> >>
> >> -S
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