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Adobe is looking more like a holding company trying to grow their membership offerings than a company building a cohesive product. It's similar to how Microsoft

Adobe is looking more like a holding company trying to grow their membership offerings than a company building a cohesive product. It's similar to how Microsoft is acquiring successful companies but having a hard time incorporating them into their ecosystem (Skype, anyone?). I don't see this going well for either Adobe or Magento. Remember when Adobe acquired Macromedia and killed Fireworks? And then Sketch came in and neatly filled the void? That's kind of what Adobe appears to do to companies. I'm not saying Adobe is bad, but their diverse portfolio of products won't be well integrated for years and in that time, there is the possibility of killing a brand simply because it does not keep up with time (and competition). Good luck, Adobe.

briansage 8y ago
Adobe's behavior makes me think more of Oracle than Microsoft: Acquire a product with a competitive moat, reskin a year later but change no features, attach an enterprise sales force to it to wring the hell out of every last subscription dollar you can get, and then maybe release a few substantive changes when sales begin to slide.
- jimnotgym 8y ago
  We took our company off Magento enterprise and onto community. We paid to have the features we wanted from Enterprise developed on community exactly because there was no guarantee that the price of Enterprise wouldn't get racked up every year. Feeling good about that decision today
tambourine_man 8y ago
>Remember when Adobe acquired Macromedia and killed Fireworks? And Freehand, RIP.
detritus 8y ago
nah, Adobe's just seen the massive benefit to their annual bottom line for anything with a subscription model, so it seems a neat fit to bring in a subscription eCommerce brand which is, in a practical sense, the nexus of 'Creative', code and web application. Frankly, I now hate Adobe with a passion (because lock-in rip off), so I don't wish them any luck.

briansage 8y ago

Adobe's behavior makes me think more of Oracle than Microsoft: Acquire a product with a competitive moat, reskin a year later but change no features, attach an enterprise sales force to it to wring the hell out of every last subscription dollar you can get, and then maybe release a few substantive changes when sales begin to slide.

jimnotgym 8y ago
We took our company off Magento enterprise and onto community. We paid to have the features we wanted from Enterprise developed on community exactly because there was no guarantee that the price of Enterprise wouldn't get racked up every year. Feeling good about that decision today

tambourine_man 8y ago

>Remember when Adobe acquired Macromedia and killed Fireworks? And Freehand, RIP.

detritus 8y ago

nah, Adobe's just seen the massive benefit to their annual bottom line for anything with a subscription model, so it seems a neat fit to bring in a subscription eCommerce brand which is, in a practical sense, the nexus of 'Creative', code and web application. Frankly, I now hate Adobe with a passion (because lock-in rip off), so I don't wish them any luck.