{"id":869,"date":"2005-04-18T21:46:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T01:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=869"},"modified":"2005-04-18T21:46:57","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T01:46:57","slug":"adobe-buys-macromedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"Adobe buys Macromedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Guardian and other sources Adobe is buying Macromedia for $3.1 billion (USD), <a title=\"Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Adobe downloads Flash for \u00a31.8bn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/story\/0,3604,1462780,00.html#article_continue\">Adobe downloads Flash for \u00a31.8bn<\/a> or <a title=\"Macromedia - Press Room : ADOBE TO ACQUIRE MACROMEDIA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/macromedia\/proom\/pr\/2005\/adobe_macromedia.html\">Macromedia &#8211; Press Room : Adobe to acquire Macromedia<\/a>. Stephen Elop, who I believe did CS at McMaster, will be head of worldwide field operations. Rob Burgess who also was at McMaster joins the Adobe board.<br \/>\nWhat does this mean for the multimedia software industry? Not good &#8211; we now have only one major provider of tools with an almost monopoly over our tools from Flash to PhotoShop. Time for some new competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Guardian and other sources Adobe is buying Macromedia for $3.1 billion (USD), Adobe downloads Flash for \u00a31.8bn or Macromedia &#8211; Press Room : Adobe to acquire Macromedia. Stephen Elop, who I believe did CS at McMaster, will be head of worldwide field operations. Rob Burgess who also was at McMaster joins the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adobe buys Macromedia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}