In reading the blogs, Allegorithmic survived and flourished perfectly fine for 15 years, then two years ago Adobe joined the Alegorithmic board and suddenly budget targets had to be met (presuming bigger profits) which then led to Athegorithmic to sell to Adobe.
Lets hope Pixologic never invite Adobe on to their board.
Budget targets always had to be met, after all we had to survive^^
However Adobe joining the board 2 years ago helped us to triple our size (from 50 to 150 employees) and launch / start new products (Source, Alchemist, etc. and all the other cool stuffs we didn't announce yet).
Source will be closed after the CC switch, Alchemist will be cancelled once the first cuts come to make up for lost subscriptions. Do me a favour Nicolas and remember this post. I want you to remember that someone told you exactly what would happen in a year when what I just said does come to fruition. I am starting to think that you actually aren't just being Adobes mouthpiece and legitimately don't realise how royally fucked you are. You have destroyed your company, most of your friends at the office will be gone within a year or two. You do not understand the deal you made and how many before you made this same deal and perished within a few years.
Also your defense is very odd to say the least. You tell us that since Adobe has come on board you've bloated the company 300% and yet frankly I've been very unhappy with your updates since the change to a yearly based numbering system for your products. You have feature requests for extremely basic features that every other software has and have been on the support sites requests section for 3+ years. We STILL can't merge texture sets at export nor can we hide objects within the scene. You can't even copy filter stacks between layers. We can't get these features even though you've had 2 years of Adobe backing and a tripling in your company size? What the hell do I have to look forward to with Adobe ownership then? The same, or worse, rate of updates with a bloated licensing system, bloated CC software integration and no perpetual license?
Give me a break. You were around for 15 years and yet at the final 2, along comes Adobe into the board of directors swinging its might and controlling it all, you yourself credit them as the reason your employment rate tripled and you were able to start so many other projects. But now suddenly this is all a shaky foundation and selling yourself to Adobe is the thing to do.
Sounds to me like Adobe came on board and spent the last 2 years grooming your company for a take over, and your delusional wannabe Peter Jackson CEO fell for it; hook, line and sinker.
