What if MS buys Adobe .... (NYT article)

MS frustrated at its inability to purchase Yahoo! (and now relieved they
didn't!) still have a mountain of cash to spend on acquisitions.

Their main focus for acquisition is in search and cloud computing, but
they are not likely to go at YHOO again even at its current dismal stock
price (or they might just want the search portion and nothing else).

OTOH, very successful Adobe is also at a pretty low stock price these
days after a good run at high prices. It has fallen by about half
during the current stock meltdown to its price of four and half years ago.

Would MS see this as a natural extension in areas like documents and
imaging (Bill Gates owns Corbis, for example, which holds a huge
collection of photographic IP)?

Would regulators stand for it?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/1...in-indepedent/

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Alan Browne wrote:
MS frustrated at its inability to purchase Yahoo! (and now relieved they
didn't!) still have a mountain of cash to spend on acquisitions.

Their main focus for acquisition is in search and cloud computing, but
they are not likely to go at YHOO again even at its current dismal stock
price (or they might just want the search portion and nothing else).

OTOH, very successful Adobe is also at a pretty low stock price these
days after a good run at high prices. It has fallen by about half
during the current stock meltdown to its price of four and half years ago.

Would MS see this as a natural extension in areas like documents and
imaging (Bill Gates owns Corbis, for example, which holds a huge
collection of photographic IP)?

Would regulators stand for it?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/1...in-indepedent/


Oh, what a rotten thought. My so so day has turned dismal: How to make a
sow's ear out of a silk purse.....

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john mcwilliams