[thelist] Microsoft to aquire Macromedia?

[stout at stoutstreet.com]

And certainly not as nutty as Quark trying to buy Adobe.

>At 8:42 AM 1/30/2, Seth Bienek wrote:
>> Not to be alarmist or anything, but... Anyone had a look at
>> http://www.f---edcompany.com this morning?
>> Not sure what the source of his info is..  Anyone got the scoop on this?
>Yes, it would be nice if something could be falsified in some way, wouldn't
>it? Spreading non-falsifiable rumors is separate from saying things.
>You might consider that, if there were some real attribution, some real
>basis, that it would appear in the original thread. Spreading it elsewhere
>asking if anyone has additional info does not seem the soundest strategy
>for checking it... you'd see what evidence they offer themselves.
>Assume such a thing were true... how would the most widely-sold J2EE
>application server be handled? (That's Macromedia JRun.) They couldn't use
>it, couldn't sell it, couldn't keep it... figuring out that showstopper
>would be a necessary first step in assuming that such a story were true.
>Then you have to figure what would happen to ColdFusion, which is a major
>part of the company's future. Would Dreamweaver be thrown away in favor of
>FrontPage? comarketed? Neither seems to make sense, but that can't stop
>such a rumor either.
>See? There's no way to falsify it. Spreading it is what it thrives on. If
>you can bear to, go listen to the garbage in that nasty-company.com site
>itself and see if you can find any useful nuggets in there, before
>soliciting/spreading it elsewhere.

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