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June 26, 2006
Adobe Scoops Up Pixmantec
In a very quiet acquisition, Adobe Systems has acquired Pixmantec, the makers of the popular and lightweight RAWShooter photo conversion software. Of immediate impact to digital shooters is the fact that RAWShooter will be discontinued. The free Essentials version will continue to be marketed and made available until Lightroom leaves beta state. RAWShooter users will then be offered an upgrade path to Adobe's products.
Posted by covey22 at June 26, 2006 3:38 PM
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What terrible news. I came very close to purchasing Rawshooters, but stuck with the free version for what I thought would be a few more months until buying. Now Adobe has it and will eliminate an excellent product. I am sure they will dump the free version too.
It eleminates some competition for Adobe, plus give them something that they could work with at Adobe. Perhaps they could copy it--a simple, easy to use piece of software that does not take 3 weeks to load, and another month to do anything with. And they could keep the price reasonalbe.
Alas, this does not seem like Adobe. A sad end to a decent piece of software.
Posted by: drichi at June 27, 2006 4:30 PM
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