News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on How Large Software Companies Destroy Startup Value.

Re:How Large Software Companies Destroy Startup Value by raganwald on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @02:16PM (#274275)
Sometimes destroying the value of the company they acquire is the entire point of the exercise:

http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translation

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How Large Software Companies Destroy Startup Value by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @03:35PM (#274387)
Yes this happens sometimes (Oracle/Innobase,...), but in the case of Adobe/Macromedia I think this very evidently not the case. I mean just look at Flash and what has become of it since Adobe bought it.
[ Parent | on HN ]