Robert X. Cringely wonders in today's column about a possible purchase of Adobe by Apple. I wonder how this would affect ColdFusion? Any thoughts out there?
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What would happen if Apple bought Adobe?
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Comments (5)
January 11, 2008
14:59PM | #
This is the second time he has written that and I still don't buy it. Generally speaking he is a very insightful and intelligent prognosticator but in this case I think he doesn't give enough reasons that seem to legitimize the theory. It sounds like it boils down to "they have lots of money to spend and need to do something big with it and none of the other options make sense".
January 11, 2008
15:07PM | #
Maybe adoAPPL would rebrand ColdFusion as AppleScript and it would be HUGELY popular.
DW
January 11, 2008
15:10PM | #
Interesting. I've blogged about Google buying Adobe... I just don't see Jobs getting that heavily into software. Why? He's killing on the hardware front - why mess with that?
To me it makes much more sense for Google to go after Adobe - they'd get Flash for their Mobile stuff, Air for Google Gears, Flex, a slew of applications they could web enable (which Adobe itself is talking about) + all the small stuff like... ColdFusion :)
January 11, 2008
15:27PM | #
It might sound good if Google bought Adobe and therefore took possession of ColdFusion, but what would happen if they did? They'd probably make it free (and possibly even open source), and then what would happen? Would it wither on the vine, or would its popularity soar?
January 11, 2008
15:51PM | #
Probably the same thing when both Macromedia and Adobe bought CF: Make it better.
While not sexy back end server technology is always going to be needed to power the sexy front ends.