I remember when Borland and Corel (publisher of software developer tools
and publisher of graphics software respectively - this sound familiar?)
announced a merger. The Borland development community had a lot of the same
concerns that I see expressed here. Then, after was all said and done the
powers that be realized that the merger had no merit and today they are
separate companies. Who knows what will happen before the 90 day waiting
period has expired?
Basically, even though curious, I'm taking the wait and see approach.
There's a ton of speculation going on and whatever happens will happen. I
would prefer to remain focused on where everything is today and hope for the
best - although I think that it wouldn't be a bad thing to let MM know what
the concerns are about allaire products. This merger could be a good thing
(more developers, marketing, maybe lower prices), it could be bad (I don't
think I've ever heard of a software merger that didn't create a few orphaned
products) or it could be somewhere in between.
And, no, I don't think MS is sweating a bit. They have plenty of good
things happening at MS (Win2K, SOAP, .NET and even X-Box <g>) and they still
have the anti-trust appeal to worry about...
Howie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 8:54 AM
Subject: Hmmm NO more Allaire
> This could be bad, but then again 2 great companies, with great products,
> could be disaster, then again it could be great, ...
>
> Ya think Microsoft is sweating just a litlle bit?
>
>
> Michael
>
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