Adobe-Macromedia Merger

harrisj — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:17:00 -0700

I am very busy these next few days, so I don't really have much to add to the existing commentary on this merger out there, but if you haven't seen it already, Daring Fireball's translation of the Adobe merger press release is a great analysis of the reality of the deal. I particularly like this translation of the release's original mention of "the complementary nature of Acrobat and Flash.":

Where by "complementary" we mean "the two leading technologies that irritate people when they’re used in lieu of regular web pages." Note that we’re using PDF to serve this very FAQ — in our synergistic future, perhaps we’ll serve our FAQs in a hybrid PDF/Flash format. One can dream.

Indeed, one can. And then hope to wake up...

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Adobe-Macromedia Merger