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[langostino]

dilleet - buy decisions

I believe the Jobs II management gets credit for AKAM, which was a 1998 deal, although I suspect it might have been in the works for some time prior to that.

ARMHY dates back quite a ways, certainly pre-Jobs II. And it produced the lionshare of profits from equity investments. My initial recollection was more than $200 million, but after glancing at the 10-Q tfigs posted, that figure is probably a bit low. It might be closer to $250 million.

The strategic aquisitions I listed previously are the very positive and laudable part of the Jobs II legacy. Perhaps we can divert the conversation back in that direction.

Getting FCP from Macromedia ... that's a fascinating deal to me. I would love to hear more about it. How it came to be, what Apple had to do to get it from where it was when they bought it to the first FCP release. And the Spruce and Astarte acquisitions and the evolution of iDVD. That kind of came right out of thin air. iDVD has never really gotten the kind of "headline" press I think it deserves. I'm sure there's an interesting story there too.