Call ADOBE today and say "Buy Cakewalk."

ADOBE needs to buy Cakewalk...
TODAY!
dmc

Midiboy
ABSOLUTELY NOT!  I hate Adobe's business model.  They would destroy Cakewalk just like they destroyed Cool Edit / Adobe Audition. 

Absolutely agreed!!

Behringer dropped Tracktion awhile ago and think it was bought back by the original developer. 

I don't like Adobe's business model, but I use their products because most of them are damn good. Not sure about them having Sonar though, but then anyone would be better than Gibson right?

I am a Website designer.  Adobe took over Macromedia's Dreamweaver a long time ago.  They made a great program (that was only getting better) mediocre.   Not a big fan but as a designer but I am using some of their products. 
They do a good job marketing, and yes, their business model seems to be sound.  I just don't know how much they put into R&D.  How much better in the current version of Photoshop than Photoshop version 6 or7?  They do a great job making something look shiny.  
So if you want to put a skirt on Sonar Platinum and pay monthly, Adobe is the company that should buy Cakewalk.

Noooooo. Have you ever noticed what Adobe does to companies they acquire? They absolutely gut them. They will fold certain fearures into their products and cease development. Remember when fireworks was the standard for making web graphics? Remember serious magic had a better keying program?

dcmg
The flip side of all these complaints about Adobe is this:
They run a very profitable company; they're growing, they have navigated the changing digital landscape perfectly. From a strictly business standpoint, they are the opposite of how Cakewalk was run.
An Adobe-owned SONAR would likely be safe from extinction.
 
That said...why would they bother to buy CW?

None of the other conpabies Adobe vultured were safe. They desyroyed those brands very quickly

I'm with the "no" votes on this one. While I do use Photoshop Elements and find it to be decent, I hate Premiere. It's counter intuitive (to me, anyway) and is just difficult to use. But most of all, I hate the "subscription" model Adobe keeps trying to force me into. Maybe with a DAW I could justify the money, but like I said in another post, I ran Sonar 8.5 on an old XP machine for years and turned out a ton of really good recordings. I just don't need to spend $200 to $500 a year for some cloud based software, when I have already coughed up a couple hundred bucks for a program that can reside on my own machine and run without needing to connect to the internet.
 
Plus, I just don't trust Adobe to leave Sonar alone, or to actually improve it. I don't know who I would like to see acquire Cakewalk/Sonar, but not Adobe. Just my opinion.

Will never rent from Adobe. Glad I was able to purchase all their products when they for sale. Same with Microsoft as well!

Firstly your comment is sheer hyperbole.. not "everyone" is heading to SAAS, and secondly, you make two huge "first world view" assumptions...
 
1. Everyone is willing to rent, and never have permanent access to, software. They are not. 
2. Everyone has constant access to high speed internet, for free. They dont. 
 

dcmg
Software as a service and subscription model is where everyone is heading, not just Adobe. Again, not a likely scenario either way as Adobe isn't likely to pick up an asset that is bleeding red ink.

You people do not seem to understand that Cakewalk is not for sale.  That Gibson could have divested the brand if they had wanted to.  The strategy is not hard to see: hold on to the intellectual property, and warehouse the trademark.
 
The intellectual property: some patents - may be well worth keeping.
The brand:  could be very profitable to license, or to just brand some new products with.
 
 

Nomad69
ADOBE needs to buy Cakewalk...
TODAY!
dmc

NOOOOOOOO ... plz ... they are the ultimate ... kill software that competes ... and they are getting worse ... Flash is just about gone, and they are still adding updates and trying to sell you something or other ... is that the way to market Sonar?