I might be wrong on this (and who is a sage in these times!), but if Alan Meckler/ JupiterMedia continues to be as aggressive and innovative like he and his company have been acting in the last 18 months, then within the next 12 - 15 months (if not earlier) JupiterImages might say to Corbis: "Hello, Number Three ("Reorganizations have become almost commonplace at the company, which has announced a restructuring in each of the last five years").
Come on, we all know the numbers in the background.
[Update Oct. 15: there are "new" rumours from Redondo Beach/PACA-- in fact these rumours go back to the CEPIC -- that another player from the worldwide TOP 20 list is going to be sold. Someone said: "As we see things now, one of the main advantages of possibly selling the business to Jupiter is certainly that the infrastructure of our company will stay in good order and shape. As we assume now, no one will be fired. There´s no groundbreaking reconstruction of our company to fit into the needs of the acquiring company. This would have been definitively the case if we would have intended to sell our company to Getty or Corbis. Everyone remembers what happened after Zefa was sold to Corbis. But we do care about our employees."]
