[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Steinberg sold to Yamaha

[Russell Hanaghan]

R Parker wrote:

>--- Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz at ping.de> wrote:
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>>I had already read that. Which effects can be
>>predicted?
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>Having an afinity for talking out of my ass, this is
>my moment.
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I thought I was the only one! :)

> What's known is that Yamaha Music invested
>$5,000.000.00 into embedded Linux kernel development a
>year or two ago. Now they've invested $25,000.000.00
>into Cubase. To compete with ProFools, they need the
>hardware and software combined. And now they have it.
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>What I find interesting is their decision to spend
>millions on Cubase rather than thousands on Ardour.
>Why? The value of concern isn't a technical quality.
>Twenty five million will build anything soft. The
>investment is in owned market.
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>Combining the Yamaha and Didgi marketshares together
>creates a product that automatically compete with
>ProFools.
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>I'll tune in to watch a couple two ton gorillas beat
>on eachother. It's a legitimate heavy weight bout. The
>compelling consideration for us is that other hardware
>companies either adapt to compete with the gorillas or
>they dissapear. Mackie has their solution. But some
>hardware manufacturer is thinking about combining
>their hardware and market share with Linux Audio
>software because JACK, Ardour, JAMin and many other
>interesting applications are almost ready to satisfy
>user expectations. Will it be Neve, Peavey, Focusrite
>or whomever that decides to combine their hardware and
>marketshare with our software and put it into the ring
>with the gorillas? Someone is gonna do it.
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This would be an awesome validation for all the hard work the dev teams 
have put into these apps. A little money might not go astray either!

>With a ringside seat procured, all I'm missing is a
>fresh pot of coffee and a donut. I will not need
>cigarettes because I quit smoking a few days back and
>am firmly held within the cold turkey psychosis. I am
>sick and pissed enough at Phillip Morris to stick
>around and watch the audio contendors fight it out.
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Doooood!  ....get the gum, the patch, the pills...whatever it takes and 
stick it out! I did 3 1/2 mths ago. I am happy to say I'm a NON 
SMOKER!!!!!  So there was a few dead bodys along the way...big deal! 
:)   The Welbutrin helped with the mood swings a bunch! And I put on 25 
lbs!!:) Soon I'll look like the freakin Pillsberry Dough boy! But I WONT 
be smokin' , no siree!


R~

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>>Cheers,
>>Andreas
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Dave Phillips" <dlphilp at bright.net>
>>To: "LAD Mail" <linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu>;
>>"LAU Mail"
>><linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu>
>>Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 3:06 PM
>>Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Steinberg sold to Yamaha
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>>>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041221/sftu007_1.html
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>>>"MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 21
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>>/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pinnacle
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>>>Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLE
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>><http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=pcle&d=t> -
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>>>News <http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=pcle>), a
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>>leader in digital video
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>>>solutions, today announced that it has entered
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>>into a definitive
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>>>agreement to sell its Hamburg, Germany-based
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>>Steinberg audio software
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>>>business to Yamaha Corporation. The transaction,
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>>which is subject to
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>>>regulatory approval, is expected to be completed
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>>during Pinnacle's third
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>>>fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2005."
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