Re: [linux-audio-dev] I think that what he means is even more important than recognition...

DigiDesign may be the special case here, assuming that Avid stays independent -- the ProTools business model offers them refuge from consolidation forces, being hardware-restricted and embraced by the high end. Avid's market cap is 370M -- an order of magnitude higher than what Apple paid for Emagic, but still digestable for the likely suitors (Microsoft and Adobe). I use "likely" as a relative term -- the hardware-centric nature of Avid makes it an unnatural fit for both of those companies ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lazzaro -- Research Specialist -- CS Division -- EECS -- UC Berkeley lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro -------------------------------------------------------------------------