At times I wonder...

They say a picture speaks a thousands words. In this case, I find it tongue in cheek that Adobe's CEO Bruce Chizen got up on stage, labeled Microsoft as a "monopoly" in one breath, then talked about how great the Adobe products in another whilst doing so on Windows Vista.

I also wonder at how much market share was replenished by Adobe CS2 to Adobe CS3 due to the Windows Vista's existence? or for that matter how much of the Adobe CS3 market is made up of Windows Vista.

Does this not validate Windows Presentation Foundation's (WPF) potential even further?

Sadly, I know the tone of this post is a little tongue in cheek counter argument to the Adobe's top boss but it's really disappointing to see that attitude (at that level) as it must send mixed signals to the folks below him.

I at times get feedback "take the high road with Adobe Scott".. yet I wonder if that road is available?

You can watch the keynote here and judge for yourself:
https://www.podtech.net/home/4418/adobe-flex-and-air-with-bruce-chizen-a-dreamforce07-keynote

"...When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.."

P.S
Picture was made with Adobe Photoshop CS3 & Windows Vista Snippet Tool running on an Apple iMAC (VMWare Fusion) and filed under "Brand Politics". I am never one brand, I just work for one.

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• Anonymous
  October 22, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 22, 2007
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  October 22, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 22, 2007
  It's actually a bit rich Adobe calling anybody else a monopoly, considering the hissyfit they had over SaveAsPDF (and even XPS) in Office 2007. PDF is an open standard unless Microsoft want to use it, and it is apparently not permissible to even attempt to compete with it.

• Anonymous
  October 22, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 23, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 23, 2007
  The monopoly argument doesn't hold water with me for two reasons. One, people choose to buy a product. That's their personal choice. Why? because it fullfills a need. If they don't like that product and US history is full of products that got ignored or went on unpurchased because the consumer was unhappy with the producer. It's not even a competition thing, if the product isn't good it doesn't sell period. There are many examples of one product that flooded the market with no competition that didn't stay around. I don't think  either company is really encroaching into the other's space. In fact I rarely see someone who does Adobe work at any .NET development thing at all. Or the .NET folks at Adobe things (except for maybe yearly conferences). I do agree that the comments made by the CEO maybe unfortunate, but I believe there is enough differentiation that it's not a problem for consumers or the public. People will buy Adobe and Microsoft products in the "space" for different reasons. Either way I believe both companies have the right to move forward in any direction they please to.. -Don

• Anonymous
  October 23, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 23, 2007
  Ritengo questo post molto significativo: They say a picture speaks a thousands words. In this case, I

• Anonymous
  October 23, 2007
  UI controls is the only reason Silverlight is no use at present for creating Web Apps.  How many Enterprise Wb Apps do you see with fancy animation & video. None!!  Do you see any useful UI controls in Silverlight.  None!! Hope this equation changes soon. (By the way don't mention Silverlight 1.1.  That too is little use at present & it's still Alpha) Scott:  Adobe has one up on you!!

• Anonymous
  October 25, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 26, 2007
  No doubt you've seen the Prism announcement by Mozilla. Quite an interesting move in this chess game