While I agree with John that we don't have enough information to judge anything, it's quite likely that the folks at Pixmantec probably went into business with a goal of selling the company when it proved to have value. That's how you make money in the software business...
Friends of mine sweated blood for eight years on a little software company. Their product was deemed very valuable and they sold the company to a big name in the field. Each of the principles retired as a several times over multi-millionaire while still in their forties. That was the goal when they started the effort. Business is business. I would congratulate Pixmantec for making a good bundle on their work, and Adobe for recognizing that their product had value which will likely now be enabling an even larger community of photographers who use Adobe due to the excellent reputation of the brand in producing creative graphics and imaging software products. It's a win-win situation. Godfrey On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:28 AM, John Francis wrote: > I think we know far too little to make snap(sic) judgements. > Was this a hostile buyout by Adobe? I doubt it - I wouldn't > have thought the Raw Shooter folks were publicly traded. > Who took the first step? Perhaps the lead engineer (or CTO) > decided he wanted to work for Adobe. > > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:59:04AM -0700, Bruce Dayton wrote: >> Boy, that wreaks of Microsoft. Rather than try to beat the >> competition, just buy it out and pluck it apart for some juicy >> morsels. This is really too bad, competition is a healthy ingredient >> in our software futures. >> >>> http://www.dpreview.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
