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June 18, 2005

Adobe to acquire Macromedia for about $3.4 billion in stock

[Learning Community Group's Research Network :: Main Page] In a statement released by the two firms, Adobe says it will leverage combined software solutions to target enterprise and mobile segments - a strategy that has been actively pursued by Macromedia for about 18 months with the enterprise communication and presentation platform Breeze as well as Flash Lite, the mobile version of the firm's animation package.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Weblogs.macromedia.com] Mike Chambers: Macromedia + Adobe: Forward-looking statements in this document include, without limitation, forecasts of market growth, future revenue, benefits of the proposed merger, expectations that the merger will be accretive to Adobe's results, future expectations concerning available cash and cash equivalents [following the merger with Macromedia and Adobe�s expectations with respect to future stock repurchases, including the timing and amount of such repurchases, and other matters that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from results expressed or implied by this presentation. Such risk factors include, among others: difficulties encountered in integrating merged businesses;

Kottke.orghttp://www.kottke.org [Kottke.org] Adobe Macromedia acquisition roundup (kottke.org): Dave Shea, well-known and respected web designer, echoes the thoughts of many in saying that Adobe bought Macromedia for their web products and savvy...and Flash in particular. Shea also wonders "what will become of Adobe's long-standing commitment to SVG, now that Flash is in the fold", names Microsoft as Adobe's main competition now (MS seems to fighting on several fronts now...the Google/Yahoo/Jeeves, Apple, and now this), but is also worried about the loss of competition in the design space: "the combined Macromedia and Adobe stable of design software is industry standard;

Weblogs.asp.nethttp://weblogs.asp.net [Weblogs.asp.net] My Thoughts on the Adobe-Macromedia Deal: Adobe is not going to buy Macromedia, take Flash, and flush all of Macromedia's non-flash products and developers down the drain. The acquisition is definately going to bring Adobe into new markets and new places in the enterprise.

http://www.dctrl.com [Dctrl.com] FLAshot„¢ - Der Schweizer Macromedia Flash Blog: Welcome to FLAshot FLAshot ist der erste Schweizer Macro- media Flash Blog und soll alle an der Entwicklung von interaktiven Medien und RIA interessierten Besucher über neuste Trends, Codes und Links informieren.

http://linux.sys-con.com [Linux.sys-con.com] Oscar Trelles, Flash Blog @ LinuxWorld: Welcome to blog-n-play, bringing you a roundup of the latest words from i-technology bloggers around the net. "Industry Blogs" that you read here are independently run, and are separate from SYS-CON Media's blog-n-play "Author Blogs" and "Reader Blogs." We're just happy to bring you links to them via the magic of RSS.

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Posted at June 18, 2005 04:25 PM

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