Freakin Scary Possible Takeover (MS > MM)
http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
Oh, the horror.
In case you're too lazy to read the article, it talks about how MS may be looking at a takeover of Macromedia. This quote sums it up:
Quote: A Microsoft acquisition of Macromedia would inevitably see Flash, and Macromedia's other cross-platform tools, tailored purely for Windows and .NET.
Busy posted this at 21:01 — 2nd January 2003.
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would hate to see the price tag on that sale
I doubt it would happen, but you just never know these days.
As long as MS loose the right to have their operating system install on new pc's they will fade out (it wont happen over night) and we will start to see some real competition with browser and standards support ... bring it on
The Webmistress posted this at 08:49 — 3rd January 2003.
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Yeah, I can't see that happening but with Macromedia loosing money they might be desperate enough!
Megan posted this at 14:29 — 3rd January 2003.
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Actually, I wouldn't be all that shocked if it happened. I would hope that MM would have more integrity than that but I guess that's how business is. The only part of the web that MS doesn't have it's teeth in is Flash...
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Jack Michaelson posted this at 14:43 — 3rd January 2003.
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When MS takes over MM they have full web dominance, which is IMHO not good. Not because of the fact that I have something against MS (they do some good things too), but I think web dominance isn't 'compatible' with the idealistic ideas of the founders of the net.
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Megan posted this at 15:19 — 3rd January 2003.
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Oh, totally. This is why I promote the use of alterna-browsers. Doing my bit for the good of mankind
Mankind on the web anyway. We can't just stand by and let them take over.
Could you imagine what MS could do to MM's products though? MM has been so great about catering to developers' needs - MS would just throw that out the window, not to mention standards support and general overall quality. Makes me mad just thinking about the possibility!
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Mark Hensler posted this at 08:08 — 4th January 2003.
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What do you think they would do to Dreamweaver or Front Page? Keep both product lines?
I think they'd jack up Dreamweaver and make it into a WYSIWIG version of InterDev (similar to DW's PHP capabilities). And they'd strip it of PHP, just to eliminate all support for the competitor.
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mjames posted this at 20:48 — 4th January 2003.
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I hope it doesn't happen ... competition breeds better quality for consumers and having one company control so much is only going to yield detrimental results.
Megan posted this at 17:06 — 5th January 2003.
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I think they would probably combine them into one somehow, based on the FP interface. Of course, you wouldn't have such handy things as "Clean up word HTML"
and probably many more of DW's code-friendly utilities. Of course, MS wouldn't want you to be writing cross-browser code, so DW's capabilities in that way would be compromised too. I'm not sure what they'd do with DW's standards support & validator ... I wouldn't be surprised if they dumped it though.... just pessimistic speculating 
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