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Adobe buys Macromedia for £2bn

smirno · 2005-04-20 12:35:04

as above! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4456895.stm mad isnt it, wonder will they spoil the software

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20-04-2005 1:35pm

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smirno

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as above!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4456895.stm

mad isnt it, wonder will they spoil the software

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#2 20-04-2005 1:36pm
egan007

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Read this a few days ago on electricnews.net

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#3 20-04-2005 9:20pm
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Not sure what this is doing in Open Source, but it's news to me.

Mad is right anyway.. will be interesting to see what comes of it. Both companies are great at doing similar but slightly different things. Some more integration between the various programs would be sweet.

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#4 20-04-2005 11:45pm
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Aren't Adobe still the second biggest software company after Microsoft ?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/19/adobe_and_macromedia_bad_news_for_online_tools/

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#5 21-04-2005 12:39pm
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Goodshape wrote:

Not sure what this is doing in Open Source, but it's news to me.

Just thinking the exact same thing - perhaps this should be moved to Computers

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