{"id":12244,"date":"2007-02-22T12:31:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T12:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/02\/adobe-minivans-promiscuity.html"},"modified":"2007-02-22T12:31:41","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T12:31:41","slug":"adobe_minivans_promiscuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/22\/adobe_minivans_promiscuity\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe, minivans, promiscuity (?!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heh&#8211;if that doesn&#8217;t get your parental antennae buzzing, I don&#8217;t know what will. ;-)&#160; I got a kick out of seeing these characterizations of Adobe, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macromedia.com\/jd\/archives\/2007\/02\/the_humble_mini.cfm\">spied by John Dowdell<\/a>, in a pair of articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;In the software world, if Oracle Corp. is the monster truck of corporate acquirers, showily flattening competitors as flash pots explode,&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/legaltechnology\/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1171965783073\">writes<\/a> Olaf de Senerpont Domis, &quot;Adobe Systems Inc. is the humble minivan, patiently trundling from point A to point B.&quot;&#160; I think there&#8217;s some truth in that.&#160; Headquartered in unassuming San Jos\u00e9 (the minivan of cities), Adobe doesn&#8217;t do a lot of the chest-thumping I see from other companies&#8211;a modesty I&#8217;ve always appreciated.&#160; And having (grudgingly) swapped a Miata for a minivan during college, I can tell you: <em>respect the van.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&quot;Going forward, the Gartner trio predicts, Adobe will promiscuously embed collaboration features across its product lines,&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esj.com\/business_intelligence\/article.aspx?EditorialsID=8327\">reports<\/a> Stephen Swoyer.&#160; Facilitating collaboration has been a passion of mine for a long time (e.g. getting feedback tools into Photoshop&#8217;s Web gallery engine in CS1; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/12\/flash_runs_insi.html\">embedding Flash<\/a> in Photoshop CS3), and we&#8217;ll keep cranking away, but now it sounds so much more&#8230; <em>salacious<\/em>. \ud83d\ude09 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the Adobe-Macromedia deal was announced, a designer remarked, &quot;Adobe will make Macromedia grow up, but Macromedia will take Adobe out clubbing.&quot;&#160; So, we may be rocking a minivan here, but you <em>know<\/em> there are hydraulics under there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh&#8211;if that doesn&#8217;t get your parental antennae buzzing, I don&#8217;t know what will. ;-)&#160; I got a kick out of seeing these characterizations of Adobe, spied by John Dowdell, in a pair of articles: &quot;In the software world, if Oracle Corp. is the monster truck of corporate acquirers, showily flattening competitors as flash pots explode,&quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}