Adobe CEO should eat his own words
In a broadside attack on Microsoft’s announcement of Silverlight, a new competitor to Adobe’s Flash software, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen unleashed a vitriolic attack on the Seattle based company’s reputation for support multiple platforms.
"Even though they say Silverlight is going to be cross-platform, and maybe the first [version] will be, I’m not sure our customers or the people that are trying to deliver that content will have the degree of confidence that if they go with Microsoft, they’ll be able to provide them with a complete cross-platform solution forever," he said.
Of course the irony of Chizen’s words were not lost on Macintosh users, who have steadily seen an erosion of support for their platform from Adobe over time. Adobe has dropped support for it’s Premier movie editing platform for Mac (only to return six years late) , dropped support for many of the components of Adobe Acrobat Professional on the Mac and a whole range of other consumer products.
Our view is that thoug this may come down to practical commercial realities, people in glass houses really shouldn’t through stones. Mr Chizen you need to eat your words.