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Adaptec, Inc. recently announced an agreement to purchase Astarte's Toast CD-ROM Pro software, generally considered to be the premiere recording software for the Macintosh. Adaptec will pay $7.5 million for what the companies have called "the Toast technology," o phrase that reflects that the software was distributed by agreement with Markus Fast-the original developer of the software--and not owned by the German multimedia company Astarte GmbH. Adaptec's international CD-R arsenal now includes Easy-CD, purchased from incatSystems of Italy, CD Creator, bought from Canada's Corel Corporation, and now Toast CD-ROM Pro.
Looking to offer what it considers the best in CD-R technology for both the Windows 95/NT and Macintosh environments, Adaptec has again used the acquisition strategy to give the company immediate presence in the Macintosh bundling CD-R market having already forsaken the admittedly weak Easy-CD Pro for Mac, and finding that the Corel CD Creator Mac product had failed to make sufficient inroads into a Toast-controlled...