Recent news reports have linked Apple and Microsoft as potential suitors for Adobe. While Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan has thrown cold water on the Microsoft discussions and the rancorous relationship between Apple and Adobe renders an amicable partnership unlikely, one name has been absent from these discussions, and they’re the ones who should most likely want to buy Adobe, has the resources to do so and can build an extremely synergistic business case for the combination, and that’s Google.
A brief look at the financials. Adobe at this writing has a market capitalization of a little over $14 billion. Google has $33.4 billion cash on hand and generated over $10 billion in operating cash flow in the last 12 months. Not only does Google therefore have the financial wherewithal to make an acquisition of this size, it’s probably one of the few acquisitions of this scale (along with Salesforce.com ; market cap almost $15 billion) that it could make without significant antitrust scrutiny. While continuing to trash Adobe, it’s not like Apple could argue compellingly that Google shouldn’t be allowed to buy it. (While we’re at it, Google should also buy Salesforce, but we’ll talk about that later.)
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What are some of the key initiatives or products the company is launching in line with this shift? The big transformation for us is moving from a
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400 dollars can save a family of four for 6 months? that's your justification?!? how do you think prices drop and products get cheaper people buy them,
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Adobe won't let you forget that Flash needs refreshing. Other companies are a little more discreet. Symantec updates its antivirus software in the |
So who wants to buy me Photoshop? or any of the other Adobe products since they all cost close to $1000, or at least the ones I want/need.
@ Nice! You're more than welcome to buy me the complete line of Adobe software products. lol
No Adobe, I am not in Aruba, but thanks for setting two accounts of mine to that country so that I can no longer buy your products online
dear @adobe: i will do everything humanly possible to convince everyone i know to NOT buy your shit products.
Adobe: I will never buy adobe products again.
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