ColorVision's Parent firm buying Gretag-MacBeth's Parent Firm???

You heard it here first!

ColorVision beats X-Rite again?

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1310AP_Eichhof_Amazys.html

If this is true, talk about industry synergy! That would merge two
Swiss companies, one considered the grand dame of color profiling:
Gretag-Macbeth, with the other which has become a market leader through
affordably priced hardware and software (manufactured in Asia). To my
mind, it's a much more natural fit than X-Rite and Gretag-Macbeth and
would create real industry dominance in drawing from the engineering,
production, marketing, and market segment strengths of both firms. An
X-Rite/Gretag deal instead, would, in my mind simply merge two firms
with strengths in the very same market segments - those kind of mergers
rarely show benefits beyond scale/cost and result in more job loss
through elimination of redundancies than would a Colorvision/Gretag
merger. It would not

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