this blog is not seeing much action but i felt compelled to share what many of you might have read already regarding the consolidation in the imaging software industry

1) adobe buys pixmantec, makers of the award winning rawshooter with the intent of incorporating the technology into Lightroom.

2) microsoft just announced it's aquisition of iView Multimedia, maker of the award winning iView Media Pro product for digital asset management (dam).

things are definitely heating up. management of digital media is now definitely a common challenge thus the large players are (finally?) catching on and starting to circle the wagons.