Tag Archive: merger

MXDJ on Adobe vs Macromedia

The April 2005 ver­sion of the MX Developer’s Journal (www​.mxdj​.com) was released yes­ter­day and I just had a peek through it. About the entire first half of the issue was devoted to the recently announced acqui­si­tion of Macromedia by Adobe and I have two prob­lems with that. First. Until the acqui­si­tion is offi­cial and approved by all con­cerned parties,…

More On Adobe vs Macromedia…

I’ve been read­ing quite a bit about the recently announced Adobe acqu­si­tion of Macromedia and, beyond all the spec­u­la­tion about the future of spe­cific prod­ucts, the one thing that’s start­ing to hit me hard is the dis­a­pear­ance of the Macromedia brand. Many peo­ple speak of this as a merger but it is not a merger, it’s an acquisition…

The Day After

I’m post­ing this both as a test as I’m try­ing to resolve some prob­lems with my blog­ging soft­ware but also to post a link to a good sum­mary of reac­tions and offi­cial state­ments about the pend­ing Adobe-​Macromedia merger announced yes­ter­day. Jason Kottke has posted this sum­mary and I wanted to link it here so that I can come back to…