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Adobe To Acquire Macromedia

Hmm, just heard about this news.   Does this show how scared Adobe (and maybe Macromedia) is of Avalon and XAML?  Over the last couple years there has been 2 major camps within Adobe, the PDF camp and the SVG camp, and both didn’t seem to like each other.  Some Macromedia employees have been known to slam SVG (although Flash and SVG, although similar, solve different problems), but I don’t know how the company as a whole feels about SVG (can’t see much love of an open spec from them, but I could be wrong there), so could the Flash folks and PDF team gang up on the SVG team?  I don’t know if it is even possible.  Either way, it looks like Adobe will try to compete with Avalon and XAML.
Published Monday, April 18, 2005 8:37 AM by donxml

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mearls@hotmail.com (Michael Earls) said:

I'd like to know what happened to the VML team...
April 20, 2005 7:43 AM

Don Demsak said:

I would guess that the majority of the VML team is now part of the Avalon team (that would make sense, but doesn't mean it is true)
April 20, 2005 9:18 AM

John Dowdell said:

Don, it'd be more convincing if you linked to things I wrote which you found objectionable, rather than linking to me generically with such a charge, true...?

tx, jd/mm
April 22, 2005 4:46 AM

Don Demsak said:

John, I would, but most of the anti-SVG stuff you wrote was over on the svg-developers discussion list, which is hard to search, but here's one: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/47437 Most of the ones I remember are from previous years, which is a real pain trying to find with Yahoo's search.
April 22, 2005 7:25 AM

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I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.
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