Earlier today, Nick Bradbury (creator
of HomeSite, TopStyle and (my favorite RSS reader) FeedDemon) alluded to an
announcement coming tomorrow morning. Looks like Steve Rubel
got the scoop this evening...NewsGator is going to be acquiring
Bradbury Software from Nick and Nick will be
joining NewsGator.
If the news is true, I'm happy that Nick was able to capitalize on his hard
work over the past few years. I'm been extremely happy with FeedDemon
for over a year. However, I'm also a little disappointed, as I'm a big fan
of the little guy and Nick showed how it's possible for even a single-person
software shop to be successful. I'll be interested in watching how NewsGator
uses FeedDemon, and I'm also wondering what they'll be doing with TopStyle as it
doesn't seem to fit with their current business model. Hopefully, it will be a
match that helps further boost RSS and blogging and will enable Nick to do
bigger and better things with FeedDemon. Congrats Nick!