Re: [linux-audio-dev] I think that what he means is even more important than recognition...
31 Oct
2002
31 Oct
'02
5:38 p.m.
Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com>
at what point do you expect Digidesign TDM plugins
to fall by the wayside?
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 ...
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31 Oct
6:01 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-dev] I think that what he means is even more important than recognition...
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:34:55PM -0800, John Lazzaro wrote:
Adobe). I use "likely" as a relative term --
the
hardware-centric nature of Avid makes it an
unnatural fit for both of those companies ...
On the other hand, microsoft doesn't seem to mind selling
hardware these days. xbox anyone?
(though of course the xbox is more like a PC than it is
like a ProTools DSP card.)
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7:15 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-dev] I think that what he means is even more important than recognition...
at what point
do you expect Digidesign TDM plugins
to fall by the wayside?
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).
the anti-trust implications of MS owning Avid are interesting.
the other important angle to a standardized plugin API are the designs
being poured in silicon (particularly Universal Audio). people will
heavy DSP loads but a committment to "native" platforms find these
things quite attractive, and it may require a complete re-engineering
of these add-on hardware units at some level (probably not that hard,
though).
--p
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