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Adobe Has Acquired Switzerland-based Day Software For $240 Million

2010-07-28T16:01:54Z

It seems to confirm the news Adobe Will Create New Business Unit To Handle Its Most High-profile Products, Adobe Systems said Wednesday that it has acquired Day Software, which makes enterprise content management software, for $240 million, holding in a deal now. Adobe plans to use to strengthen its enterprise software offerings.

1. Why Adobe Buy Day Software

Day will become a product line within Adobe’s Digital Enterprise Solutions Business Unit, and Day’s CEO, Erik Hansen, will join Adobe as part of the deal.

"With the addition of Day to our enterprise portfolio, we will be able to enhance the value of our offering and deliver on our vision of the Web as the hub of customer interaction,"

the U.S. software vendor said.

This acquisition represents a significant market opportunity for Adobe to help organizations transform themselves by enabling them to create, manage, distribute and monetize content while optimizing the web experience for their customers.

2. Day Software Be Worth $240 Million?

In a separate statement, Day Software reported total revenues of 25.1 million francs and net income of 3.7 million francs for the first half of 2010.

If this deal will be approved by govement, Day shareholders will receive 139 Swiss francs per share, a 34 percent premium to Day’s Tuesday close of 104 Swiss francs, Adobe’s acquisition of Day will strengthen the company’s enterprise software solutions with market leading Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management and Social Collaboration offerings.

Day’s leading web solutions combined with Adobe’s existing enterprise portfolio will enable customers to better integrate their global web presence and business applications, Day customers will be able to leverage more interactive application and document capabilities from Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash, Flex, Adobe LiveCycle and PDF.

Adobe will take the ability to help customers realize the full potential of the web in acquiring, servicing and retaining their customers, without disrupting their existing IT infrastructures.

Erik Hansen, CEO, Day Software said,

"Organizations around the globe have recognized the importance of the online and mobile channel and turned to Day as their enterprise standard for next generation Web Content Management,"

"We are excited to join Adobe and combine our expertise in WCM with technologies that create and deliver rich online and offline experiences leveraging the ubiquity of Flash and PDF. We believe this is a winning combination for both Adobe and Day customers."

3. Transaction Details

As part of the expected integration of the two companies, Day will operate as a product line within Adobe’s Digital Enterprise Solutions Business Unit. Day CEO Erik Hansen will join Adobe reporting directly to Rob Tarkoff. Hope Erik Hansen will NOT be the next Josh James.

The proposed offer represents a premium of 59 percent over Day’s volume-weighted average share price for the last 60 trading days. The Board of Directors of Day unanimously recommends the offer to Day shareholders. The Chairman and the CEO of Day and other Board members have entered into undertakings to tender their shares.

The deal is subject to government approval before it can be finalized. Adobe expects to close the deal in the fourth quarter of its 2010 fiscal year.

More details regarding the transaction are available on Adobe Investor Relations page, and here is a quick link of Adobe to Acquire Day Software (PDF: 61k ).

4. About Day

Day Software is the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) pioneer that leading global enterprises rely on for their Web 2.0 content application and content infrastructure needs. Day’s Content Repository Extreme (CRX) is the industry’s leading Java Content Repository (JCR) that provides unique virtualization services to consolidate legacy repositories and unique cloud computing services to lower IT operational costs. Day’s CQ5 provides industry-leading Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management, and Social Collaboration in a single, unified suite and won the 2009 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award for "Best Web CMS".

Day is an international company with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland and Boston Massachusetts, traded since April 2000 on the SIX Swiss Exchange, and "Over the Counter" (OTC) as American Depositary Receipts (OTCQX:DYIHY). Day’s customers are worldwide leading global enterprises, including: Adobe, Audi, Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW, General Motors, Nissan, Williams Sonoma, John Lewis, Hyatt, Intercontinental Hotels Group, McDonalds, Newsweek, and MTV.

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Omniture’s Internet Analytics Tools Would Be Folded Into The Adobe Online Marketing Suite & ex-CEO Josh James To Step Down

2010-07-27T16:23:37Z

Adobe Systems Inc. annonuced it will create new business unit to handle the most high-profile prudocts on this monday. Omniture, which provides an integrated set of services: advanced web analytics and segmentation, online business optimization platform, will be a part of Adobe’s new strategy: Adobe said Omniture’s Internet analytics tools would be folded into the Adobe Online Marketing Suite. Then, the founder and ex-CEO Josh James of Omniture will step down at the end of this month.

Playback: Adobe Acquired Omniture

On Oct. 23, 2009, Adobe Systems Incorporated completed its acquisition of Omniture, Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $1.8 billion on a fully diluted equity-value basis. Adobe acquired all of the outstanding common stock of Omniture for $21.50 per share in cash.

Adobe believed the combination of the two companies will increase the value Adobe delivers to customers, for designers, developers, and online marketers, an integrated workflow. Below is some resources about that acquisition, which released by Adobe:

Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe said,

"Adobe customers are looking to us for solutions to deliver engaging experiences and more effectively monetize their content and applications online,"

"This is a game changer for both Adobe and our customers. We will enable advertisers, media companies and e-tailers to realize the full value of their digital assets."

Some customers were encouraged by that news, largely because they believe that Adobe would bring a new level of rigor to product development, integration, and customer support.

Why Josh James To Step Down

Most time a departure can suggest trouble, but in a news release Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said Omniture is doing well for Adobe:

"With Omniture, Josh built the industry’s first integrated online marketing suite as an intelligent platform to optimize online business initiatives,"

"Omniture’s business has never been stronger and now accounts for about 10 percent of Adobe’s revenue,"

"This is due, in large part, to Josh’s leadership and we’re grateful for his contributions."

Adobe didn’t explain the reason behind James’ departure, however, James’ departure was announced along with other executive changes at Adobe, and the move comes at an critical time for Adobe’s mobile strategy, it’s full of spatial imagination.

What James Will Do Next

In March, Omniture struck a deal with Facebook that enabled marketers to buy and measure Facebook media through Omniture’s search campaign management platform.

James also joined Demand Media’s board in mid-April. But it’s unclear whether James has taken a role with another firm and what he will do next.

Who Will Take Over James’ Responsibilities

Brad Rencher, who formerly was vice president of business operations for Omniture BU (OBU), will take over James’ responsibilities as vice president and general manager of the Omniture unit.

About Omniture

Omniture, Inc. is a leading provider of online business optimization software, enabling customers to manage and enhance online, offline and multi-channel business initiatives.

Omniture’s software, which it hosts and delivers to its customers as an on-demand subscription service and on-premise solution, enables customers to capture, store and analyze information generated by their Web sites and other sources and to gain critical business insights into the performance and efficiency of marketing and sales initiatives and other business processes.

In addition, Omniture offers a range of professional services that complement its online services, including implementation, best practices, consulting, customer support and user training through Omniture Education. Omniture’s over 5,000 customers include eBay, AOL, Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, Oracle, Sony etc.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe Systems Incorporated(NASDAQ: ADBE) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, which was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development.

Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in December 2005, which added newer software products and platforms such as Coldfusion, Dreamweaver, Flash and Flex to its product portfolio.

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Adobe Will Create New Business Unit To Handle Its Most High-profile Products

2010-07-27T06:33:20Z

Adobe Systems Inc. announced on this Monday that it will create new units to push core technologies and products, include Flash video technology and CS software.

And a new business unit which dubbed Creative and Interactive Solutions will be launched first, David Wadhwani, who is currently part of Adobe’s Platform business will be the leader of this company based in San Jose.

Adobe is implementing its strategy—push its flagship products in different technology environments. This company hopes deliver faster on its vision of multi-screen publishing by combining these products and solutions in one business unit. Multi-screen publishing refers to delivery of content over multiple platforms, like smartphones, computers and other devices.

Adobe will launch a Digital Media Solutions unit to be headed by John Loiacono.The unit will try to find new marketing opportunities in the digital imaging and video field. Not the news from official, I guess Adobe eSignatures will be one part of this unit.

Will you expect the change of market from this new strategy?

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How To Calculate The Average Between 2 Colors In ActionScript 3.0

2010-07-26T15:25:29Z

In some web apps or flash games, we probably need to calculate the average between 2 colors, for example. feed 0xAA0000 and 0xCC0000, and return 0xBB0000 ? Is there a simple way to calculate between two hex colors?

AverageColor is a open source(Licensed under the MIT License) util-class to calculate the average between 2 colors (Hex, RGB or HSB format).

There are only 2 classes in AverageColor library. Calculate the average color with AverageColor.as, and convert RGB/HSB/16 color with ConvertColor.as class. They were released by scratchbrain(Japanese).You can download AverageColor library here.

AverageColor.as

Function averageHex: average 2 hex colors.

Function averageRgb: average 2 RGB colors.

Function averageHsb: average 2 HSBcolors.

package net.scratchbrain.color
{
import net.scratchbrain.color.AverageColor;
public class AverageColor
{
public static function averageHex(_hex1:uint,_hex2:uint):uint
{
var rgb1:Object = ConvertColor.HexToRGB(_hex1);
var rgb2:Object = ConvertColor.HexToRGB(_hex2);
var hsb1:Object = ConvertColor.RGBToHSB(rgb1.r,rgb1.g,rgb1.b);
var hsb2:Object = ConvertColor.RGBToHSB(rgb2.r,rgb2.g,rgb2.b);
return averageHsb(hsb1.h,hsb1.s,hsb1.b,hsb2.h,hsb2.s,hsb2.b);
}
public static function averageRgb(_r1:int,_g1:int,_b1:int,_r2:int,_g2:int,_b2:int):uint
{
var hsb1:Object = ConvertColor.RGBToHSB(_r1,_g1,_b1);
var hsb2:Object = ConvertColor.RGBToHSB(_r2,_g2,_b2);
return averageHsb(hsb1.h,hsb1.s,hsb1.b,hsb2.h,hsb2.s,hsb2.b);
}
public static function averageHsb(_h1:int,_s1:int,_b1:int,_h2:int,_s2:int,_b2:int):uint
{
var _h:int;
var _s:int;
var _b:int;
if(_h1 <= 18 && _s1 != 0 && _h2 >= 180){
_h1 = 360;
}
if(_h2 <= 18 && _s2 != 0 && _h1 >= 180){
_h2 = 360;
}
if(_s1 != 0 && _s2 != 0){
_h = (_h1 + _h2)/2;
_s = (_s1 + _s2)/2;
_b = (_b1 + _b2)/2;
}else if(_s1 == 0 && _s2 == 0 _h = 0;
_s = 0;
_b = (_b1 + _b2)/2;
}else
_h = (_h1 != 0) ? _h1 : _h2;
_s = (_s1 + _s2)/2;
_b = (_b1 + _b2)/2;
}
var rgb:Object = ConvertColor.HSBToRGB(_h,_s,_b);
return ConvertColor.RGBToHex(rgb.r,rgb.g,rgb.b);
}
}
}

ConvertColor.as

Function RGBToHex: convert from RGB to Hex

Function HexToRGB: convert from HEX to RGB

Function RGBToHSB: convert RGB to HSB

Function HSBToRGB: convert HSB to RGB

package net.scratchbrain.color
{
public class ConvertColor
{
// convert from RGB to Hex
public static function RGBToHex(r:int,g:int,b:int):uint
{
var hex:uint = r<<16 | g<<8 | b;
return hex;
}
// convert from HEX to RGB
public static function HexToRGB(value:uint):Object{
var rgb:Object = new Object();
rgb.r = (value >> 16) & 0xFF
rgb.g = (value >> 8) & 0xFF
rgb.b = value & 0xFF
return rgb;
}
// convert RGB to HSB
public static function RGBToHSB(r:int,g:int,b:int):Object{
var hsb:Object = new Object;
var _max:Number = Math.max(r,g,b);
var _min:Number = Math.min(r,g,b);
hsb.s = (_max != 0) ? (_max - _min) / _max * 100: 0;
hsb.b = _max / 255 * 100;
if(hsb.s == 0){
hsb.h = 0;
}else{
switch(_max)
{
case r:
hsb.h = (g - b)/(_max - _min)*60 + 0;
break;
case g:
hsb.h = (b - r)/(_max - _min)*60 + 120;
break;
case b:
hsb.h = (r - g)/(_max - _min)*60 + 240;
break;
}
}
hsb.h = Math.min(360, Math.max(0, Math.round(hsb.h)))
hsb.s = Math.min(100, Math.max(0, Math.round(hsb.s)))
hsb.b = Math.min(100, Math.max(0, Math.round(hsb.b)))
return hsb;
}
// convert HSB to RGB
public static function HSBToRGB(h:int,s:int,b:int):Object{
var rgb:Object = new Object();
var max:Number = (b*0.01)*255;
var min:Number = max*(1-(s*0.01));
if(h == 360){
h = 0;
}
if(s == 0){
rgb.r = rgb.g = rgb.b = b*(255*0.01) ;
}else{
var _h:Number = Math.floor(h / 60);
switch(_h){
case 0:
rgb.r = max ;
rgb.g = min+h * (max-min)/ 60;
rgb.b = min;
break;
case 1:
rgb.r = max-(h-60) * (max-min)/60;
rgb.g = max;
rgb.b = min;
break;
case 2:
rgb.r = min ;
rgb.g = max;
rgb.b = min+(h-120) * (max-min)/60;
break;
case 3:
rgb.r = min;
rgb.g = max-(h-180) * (max-min)/60;
rgb.b =max;
break;
case 4:
rgb.r = min+(h-240) * (max-min)/60;
rgb.g = min;
rgb.b = max;
break;
case 5:
rgb.r = max;
rgb.g = min;
rgb.b = max-(h-300) * (max-min)/60;
break;
case 6:
rgb.r = max;
rgb.g = min+h * (max-min)/ 60;
rgb.b = min;
break;
}
rgb.r = Math.min(255, Math.max(0, Math.round(rgb.r)))
rgb.g = Math.min(255, Math.max(0, Math.round(rgb.g)))
rgb.b = Math.min(255, Math.max(0, Math.round(rgb.b)))
}
return rgb;
}
}
}

Useage

1. import

import net.scratchbrain.color.AverageColor;

2. call function

Calculate the average between 2 HEX colors:

var _color:uint = AverageColor.averageHex(_color1.selectedColor,_color2.selectedColor);

Calculate the average between 2 RGB colors:

var _color:uint = AverageColor.averageRgb(_r1.value,_g1.value,_b1.value,_r2.value,_g2.value,_b2.value);

Calculate the average between 2 HSB colors:

var _color:uint = AverageColor.averageHsb(_h1.value,_s1.value,_v1.value,_h2.value,_s2.value,_v2.value);

Author URL

http://www.scratchbrain.net/blog/ver2/entries/000445.html (Japanese)

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The Fresh GoDaddy Promo Code And Coupon List For 2010

2010-07-25T16:48:46Z

Godaddy was founded in 1997 by Bob Parsons, has become the largest ICANN-accredited registrar and the first registrar to surpass Network Solutions in total domain names registered. Godaddy provides promo code for their products, include domains, hosting, SSL, auctions etc. We have posted some no expiration date Godaddy promo code and Coupon, below is a list of the fresh Godaddy promo code and coupon for 2010.

If you know of any other GoDaddy promo codes, please submit them to the comments, so we can update it to the best GoDaddy promo code & coupon list. .

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