News Article: "Adobe to buy Macromedia"
Hmmm, this will be interesting to see where things lead.
Article: http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/18/technology/adobe.reut/
Wonder what will become of Macromedia Studio now...
Dreamweaver merging with Go Live??? Who knows.
I know I don't care for the end result of Norton Ghost merging with Drive Image when Norton bought that technology...
-Greg
PS: Press releases from the companies:
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html
dk01 posted this at 21:30 — 18th April 2005.
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Honestly now what competition is there? Don't say Frontpage is a serious contender for web design software.
As always there are some interesting comments on slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/1355233&from=rss
-dk
teammatt3 posted this at 00:11 — 19th April 2005.
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That's interesting. I wonder if Adobe will stop production of Fireworks?
andy206uk posted this at 10:59 — 19th April 2005.
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This scares me. Seriously. I'm worried as hell about this... if Adobe touch Fireworks or Dreamweaver I'm gonna be seriously ****** off!
Megan posted this at 13:29 — 19th April 2005.
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Aaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh! I would be ticked off too. And Flash ?!?!?? Yikes.
(I do use Audition, which was formerly Cool Edit on a regular basis. seems that they just bought the software and basically left it alone. Which is okay, unless you want the software to actually improve!)
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dk01 posted this at 15:09 — 19th April 2005.
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As long as they leave Photoshop untouched I will be happy I think.
-dk
bja888 (not verified) posted this at 19:41 — 19th April 2005.
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I have been saying this should happen since I started with flash. All of macromedia's products work as if they where ment for childern. I think if you add the tech end of photoshop with the consept of flash the results will be... well practical! As opposed to how macromedia deals with flash now.
Flash uses every bit of your system resorces with no care of the consiquences. Its like it was programmed by a monkey not effective just.... well "flashy". (Pardon the punn)
Greg K posted this at 18:13 — 9th August 2005.
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Well, the next version is in "pre sales", (http://www.macromedia.com/software/studio/?promoid=BSOT). Wonder if this is still mainly a Macromedia product or if parts of adobe have migrated in....
I'm going to go view their tour of new products now...
-Greg
Megan posted this at 18:29 — 9th August 2005.
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I'm glad they've finally gone back to the version numbers instead of the letters (MX, CS etc.).
I'm having a few problems viewing the Flash presentation but I've been able to watch some of it. Looks like another case of releasing a new version without actually changing a whole lot. They couldn't exactly do MX 2004.2 though
Blend modes are interseting. Dreamweaver seems to have more improvements with the CSS layout handling and XML stuff.
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Megan posted this at 17:55 — 29th August 2005.
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Update - just came across this interview (gotta love RSS!) with the CEO of Adobe.
http://news.com.com/Adobe+under+construction/2008-1082_3-5843856.html?part=rss&tag=5843856&subj=news
Very interesting. Seems that they're more interested in PDF-Flash integration than anything else (although Illustrator-Flash would be very cool too). Interesitng comments about MS too.
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