Adobe buys Macromedia? 2005-04-18 - By Andrew Turner
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I doubt it.
If anything, I believe they'll combine things that can be combined, and
leave things alone that work the way they are and can't be...
"assimilated" :)
Don't forget SVG.
If Adobe saw Macromedia as a company with valuable assets, why would
they simply chop off a large portion of their user base? I think
they'll keep things in tact for a while.
That said, I've been using GoLive for a long time but know Dreamweaver
is more the standard, and I'd switch if the upgrade price was the same;
I think Flash's video capabilites will undoubtedly improve; Illustrator
and ImageReady already work pretty well with Flash.
There are a ton of free and cheap relatively unknown 2D vector programs
out there that work pretty well; that, with the relative cooling
between Apple and Adobe, I don't think the graphics world will suffer
at all.
Andrew
On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:50 AM, Douglas Alden Peterson wrote:
<http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html>
>
> I cannot wait to see what Adobe does with it....
What they will do with it is scuttle most of it.
FreeHand or Illustrator will be scraped. My guess
is Illustrator since FreeHand and Fireworks
play nice with Flash. GoLive will be history
since it competes with Dreamweaver.
Advances in graphics programs will also slow
since these two top notch firms have been
driving the industry for years.
All in all, this is sad news.
Doug
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Douglas Alden Peterson
Graphic & Web Design; Illustration
Visualeyes
Brighton, MI USA
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