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poi
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: France
Insane since: Jun 2002

posted posted 04-18-2005 13:42

Adobe to acquire Macromedia in $3.4B deal.
And the page on Adobe's site about Adobe and Macromedia.

Wow, I'm really curious to see the softwares and technologies these 2 masters of publishing will release together. I hope they won't rest on their laurel and there'll still be some competition ...

reisio
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Florida
Insane since: Mar 2005

posted posted 04-18-2005 13:49

I'll put them both out of business.

Lacuna
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: the Asylum ghetto
Insane since: Oct 2002

posted posted 04-18-2005 15:22

just thought i'd drop this link in as well: Mike Chamber's Macromedia Weblog.

mas
Maniac (V) Mad Librarian

From: the space between us
Insane since: Sep 2002

posted posted 04-18-2005 22:37

definitely some interesting news. i am curious what will happen to some of their software...especially firework and dreamweaver. will there just be ps and go live? or will they continue to sell these products under their old names..........

B | T | E | P | L

kuckus
Paranoid (IV) Mad Librarian

From: Glienicke
Insane since: Dec 2001

posted posted 04-18-2005 22:52

mas: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/58709

warjournal
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From:
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 04-18-2005 23:03

Silence! I am about to make a prediction...
MS will spear-head a massive anti-trust lawsuit against Adobe-Macromedia.

Schitzoboy
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Yes
Insane since: Feb 2001

posted posted 04-18-2005 23:18

hmm, this seems bad to me. I always viewed adobe and macromedia as two camps with totally different ways of going about designing similar software. Sometimes macromedia had the best notions, sometimes adobe did. I don't think the next generation of all their software will be the best of both worlds. And now adobe has eliminated their number one competitor! Maybe this'll fair well for the gimp though?

tikigod
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: outside Augusta National
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 04-18-2005 23:31
quote:
I am curious what will happen to some of their software...especially firework and dreamweaver.



My predictions...

Fireworks -- Dead, some features go into PS/Imageready
GoLive -- Dead, same as above but with Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver has the stronger brand and user base.
Freehand -- real dead, I wouldn't want to be on that development team right now.

All th UI's will look like Adobe's. Hopefully Macromedia's strong developer community survives.

--Tiki

ZaddyDog
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Canada
Insane since: Apr 2005

posted posted 04-19-2005 00:50
quote:
warjournal said:

MS will spear-head a massive anti-trust lawsuit against Adobe-Macromedia.



Or better still they'll buy the merged entity.

Either way, MS Paint is about to take a beating.

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