Bob Shell wrote: > Adobe's done this before. They bought Live Picture, a great photo > retouching application with some very advanced features, and > discontinued it just to get rid of the competition. > > Bob
That sounds like AutoCAD, or as the parent company became known as ~ Autodesk. They bought out, to name just one, the Generic CADD people, aka Generic Software, Inc.,dba Autodesk Retail Products Division. A division of AutoDesk, I guess... That was just after Autodesk bought them out. Prior to that, they existed all alone. Great people... When this company (Generic Software, Inc.) started, it was "Design and Drafting Software for the Macintosh." A little quirky, and with some unique ways of doing things, nevertheless, it was well worth learning. Lots of promise. By 1993 they stopped supporting the product, and in 1994 discontinued it. For the next couple of years, if you wanted a PC version, they had that available, but then it too was discontinued. The product was very capable and by Autodesk's own admission, had over 200,000 copies in customer hands. That's not insignificant. But, someone there decided they didn't want the competition to an Autodesk drawing program. Poof! keith whaley > On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > >> That was my immediate reaction as well, but we don't know all the >> details >> and the circumstances. Maybe the Pixmantic people were looking to >> sell, >> maybe they even approached Adobe. I agree that competition is >> healthy, >> perhaps even going one step further to suggest that it's important >> for the >> creation of new ideas and concepts. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
