Steve Rubel reports:

Tomorrow, NewsGator will formally announce that it has acquired Bradbury Software, which makes the popular FeedDemon RSS aggregator, and TopStyle, a CSS/xHTML editor for Windows.  FeedDemon will integrate tightly with the NewsGator Online synchronization platform and come bundled with all of NewsGator's paid subscription plans.  Nick Bradbury, the developer behind both those products, will be joining NewsGator as well. This is a smart move by both companies. RSS is growing fast and the smaller players will need to combine to compete with more capitalized players, such as Yahoo, Ask/Bloglines/IAC, Microsoft and others.

Interestingly, this was the combination I was thinking of when I posted this. I didn't verbalize it then, mostly because I didn't want to look too foolish if I made the wrong guess :) Looks like Rob Fahrni sort of gets his wish.

The real question is, which codebase dies? They won't need two clients, and the code bases won't be that similar (especially given the fact that NewsGator lives inside Outlook). My guess? Sayonara FeedDemon.