The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
October 24th, 2007
Well, I’ve been blog-tied (that’s like “hog-tied”) because I just have not known what to write about on this blog for the last few weeks. Just when one story seemed more important than Darwinism, along came another, and before I knew it I was struck speechless (much to the pleasure of the creationists). But one…
October 3rd, 2007
As I wrote in my blog yesterday, The Adobe War Against Microsoft, “I continue to marvel at Adobe’s ‘Mouse That Roared’ approach to the battle: its market cap is slightly less than 10% of Microsoft’s.” I also referred to the “battle between the emerging Adobe and the great Goliath.” Of course market capitalization, $26 billion…
October 2nd, 2007
If anyone was wondering whether or not Adobe has declared war against the (ostensibly ailing) Microsoft, the evidence became unmistakable on October 1. I continue to marvel at Adobe’s “Mouse That Roared” approach to the battle: its market cap is slightly less than 10% of Microsoft’s. But the war has certainly begun. We can argue…
September 19th, 2007
If you’ve been following the industry news in the last few weeks you may have noted that Microsoft failed (narrowly) to secure ISO approval for Office Open XML (OOXML). Your eyes may also have glazed over while you moved on to the next story. There are some extremely complex issues that underlie this story. They…
September 15th, 2007
The Canadian dollar, after many years trading as low as 62 cents on the American dollar, has now reached a point of near-parity: closing just above 97 cents yesterday. In an article in the Globe and Mail, BMO Nesbitt Burns deputy chief economist Douglas Porter said “The latest run in the Loonie has been fuelled…