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oldsk00l
04-18-05, 04:27 PM
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1009

This is some kind of a joke right?

Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by both boards of directors, Macromedia stockholders will receive, at a fixed exchange ratio, 0.69 shares of Adobe common stock for every share of Macromedia common stock in a tax-free exchange. Based on Adobe’s and Macromedia’s closing prices on Friday, April 15, 2005, this represents a price of $41.86 per share of Macromedia common stock. That is a 25 percent premium to Macromedia's closing price of $33.45 on Friday. Upon the close of the transaction, Macromedia stockholders will own approximately 18 percent of the combined company on a pro forma basis.

Riptide
04-18-05, 04:28 PM
No joke, read about that on my lunch as well as the EB/Gamestop deal.

superklye
04-18-05, 11:01 PM
So does this mean that Macromedia is now owned by Adobe and the fantastic Macromedia line of products are going to be relegated to steaming **** like Adobe GoLive? Because if that's so, I'm gonna go crazy.

Rakeesh
04-19-05, 03:00 AM
Watch as your flash applications suddenly take two minutes to load from now on, even in the web browser. But then adobe will fix that by forcing your system to startup with a pre-launch application that must run 24/7 and uses 100MB of ram while doing nothing!

God I hate adobe bloatware...I wish that company could write at least one peice of software.

superklye
04-19-05, 09:02 AM
Watch as your flash applications suddenly take two minutes to load from now on, even in the web browser. But then adobe will fix that by forcing your system to startup with a pre-launch application that must run 24/7 and uses 100MB of ram while doing nothing!

God I hate adobe bloatware...I wish that company could write at least one peice of software.
No kidding! If it weren't for Macromedia, I wouldn't be able to do web design...Adobe's programs suck! They are ANYTHING but intuitive.

I love teh Macromedia.

saturnotaku
04-19-05, 09:25 AM
I hate both Macromedia and Adobe. Macromedia for not updating the Firefox Flash plugin since last freaking October and Adobe for well...everything.

gram_vaz
04-19-05, 10:03 AM
i never like takeovers...