Xara acquired by MAGIX

[Soquili]

Global marketing can make Xara products a house hold name

Will this affect the open source project?

[Intbel]

Straight from the horse's mouth.
Thank you for taking time out to inform us.

'Tis good that MAGIX has no competing products and that its existing products, like Xara's, are competitively priced.

I hope this works as intended and further development becomes even more efficient.

[amoore]

Charles, I really hope you're right, but I feel like I've just lost my best friend.

Allison

[parahandy]

I hope this will not slow up the distribution of the CD. I too feel like I have lost an old friend, proud of the fact the company was British . Time will tell how good the change will be.

[jclements]

A big sighhhhh.

My two favorite pieces of software Xara and SketchUp have passed ownership within the last year or so. I respect Charles' judgement/business sense so I leave it to him and pray (a term I don't often use) that Xara software will be better off a year from now than what it is today.

That said, Charles I hope this will eventually mean a new bitmap editing program that is Xara-like in easy-of-use, code-effeciently, speed, unique approach, and implimentation.

>> And same question as Bill Taylor, "Will this affect the Open Source Project?"

>> Fur unser Deutsches freunden, kennen sie Magix? Can you tell us of your experiences with their software?

[remi]

>> Fur unser Deutsches freunden, kennen sie Magix? Can you tell us of your experiences with their software?

I own two products from Magix: "Video deluxe plus" and "Webradio deluxe". The software is good, has a lot of features and a nice look and feel. There are also other video editing packages available here in Germany, but I prefer the products from Magix.

The products from Magix are very well known here and that's the great point with this deal: You'll find their products in large retail stores like MediaMarkt/Saturn, there are a lot of computer magazines with large advertisings from Magix and a lot of tests of their software products.

I would say, their public image is positive and they know how to do marketing. In my eyes it's a great decision from Charles to go with Magix.

Remi

[ankhor]

I would say, their public image is positive and they know how to do marketing. In my eyes it's a great decision from Charles to go with Magix.

Remi

Yep, totally agree, good software for a reasonable price.
Just like Xara products are. I have been using Magix Music Cleaning
Lab for many years now, to clean up my vinyl records before
burning them to CD. And my cassette tapes. And music studio,
but an older version it was still so good. I didn`t feel like needing a new one.

So I have confidence in Magix.

And congratulations with the new move.

And I know that my new magix logo`s were good, but that they were going
to buy the whole company just for that, who would have known <lol>

http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...t=24011&page=3

[masque]

I too feel like I have lost an old friend, proud of the fact the company was British . Time will tell how good the change will be.

To me the Britishness of the product was a big point as well. The fact that it worked better than any other for what I require was the main point of course and I hope that will carry on being the case.
An Indian company has just bought British Steel, the Chinese are building cars in Birmingham and the Goverment seems to have been bought by President Shrub. The corner shop and Xara were all I had left to hold on too, I really hope its successful.
Derek

[minimiro]

This is the globalisation Masque..

[ankhor]

To me the Britishness of the product was a big point as well. The fact that it worked better than any other for what I require was the main point of course and I hope that will carry on being the case.

Britishness? Okay this company was still british.
But since most companies nowadays work with shares
you actually never know who really owns them.

An Indian company has just bought British Steel,

Corus, which wasn`t even totally British anymore since
they merged with the Dutch Hoogovens, and now it is
in other hands, and who knows in what time they are in other
hands again.

the Chinese are building cars in Birmingham and the Goverment seems to have been bought by President Shrub. The corner shop and Xara were all I had left to hold on too, I really hope its successful.
Derek

Welcome to the corperate world.