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Apr 28, 2006
Will Apple Buy Adobe - Robert Cringely
Robert Cringely speculates that Apple has been preparing to buy out Adobe sometime next year perhaps in order to better compete with Microsoft and solve Apple's "application vulnerability."
That's because for its core media and graphics markets Apple is as dependent on Adobe as it is Microsoft for the general office market. And now that Adobe owns Macromedia, Apple is even more vulnerable.
He claims that some anecdotal evidence suggests that they have been preparing for exactly this kind of move for some time. This is because Steve Jobs "needs the top ISVs who are currently writing for OS X to continue writing for OS X, and that especially means Adobe."
There's only one way to make that happen for sure, and that's for Apple to buy Adobe.
An interesting read for sure, regardless of your opinion of his conclusions. If he is correct, what would this mean for the future of ColdFusion? Bueller? Bueller?
Comments
CF runs on mac so the chances of continual support is high. CF competes with asp so the chances of support is high. CF is the prefered backend for Flex so the chance of support is high. Sales of CF is high, use in corp and gov is high, etc, etc, etc. CF will live on.
Even now, CF is growing fast and hard. I get a call for staffing almost daily, do support all the time and have a few teaching gigs in the next few months. CF is growing and Apple would be fools to spike it.
Even now, CF is growing fast and hard. I get a call for staffing almost daily, do support all the time and have a few teaching gigs in the next few months. CF is growing and Apple would be fools to spike it.
Thanks for your comments Michael. Personally, my gut is that they would not kill it either (and obviously this is speculation based upon speculation anyway, but its fun ;). However, having it under an Apple umbrella would probably still have a ton of other consequences...however I am not going to even venture a guess at what those might be.
I think Adobe purchasing sun would be a much better move. Adobe picks up a hardware platform, a full suite of enterprise capable internet servers (the former netscape line), an OS that could compete with both OSX and Windows if desired, StarOffice and Java.
All at about $5/share.
Now THAT would be interesting.
All at about $5/share.
Now THAT would be interesting.
An Adobe/Apple merger would be a good defense against MS, but would it lead to better products? I think it could result in a loss of focus in the key areas each company is strong in. I like the "smaller and leaner" philosophy more than the notion of large, powerful, unwieldy conglomerates. Bigger is not always better. Still, the potential of this happening is intriguing.