April 19, 2005
Adobe buys Macromedia!
This one certainly caught me a little off-guard. Viewing this from a purely print desktop publishing perspective, I suppose a little bit more integration is good, especially across the Flash-Photoshop spectrum. Fireworks and Freehand, so long guys, I hardly knew ya. My real question surrounds Dreamweaver and what Adobe is planning on doing with this very popular page builder. Are they planning on discontinuing the line in favor of GoLive? I've used both of these programs (granted an older version of GoLive) and I'm not sure how easy this one sits with me.
Again, since my specialty is in print design, the immediate impact of this merger won't be as noticeable as it will for you web developers. Still seems pretty profound.
(More information: press release.)
kwc at April 19, 2005 01:23 PM
Adobe and Macromedia must merge, otherwise the terrorists win:
"After 9/11, we both realized that being enemies didn't make sense," Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said in a conference call on Monday, referring to his discussions with Macromedia's then-CEO Rob Burgess. "We were not longer competing."
As for what happens to the various products, it is highly unlikely that they would kill Dreamweaver in favor of GoLive. If anything, they would kill GoLive. In fact, I'm not sure that it web developers are more affected than print folks. Macromedia's strength is in web; Adobe's is in print. IMHO, the only difference is that whenever I visit a Web page that unnecessarily uses PDF or Flash, I can shout one name in anger.
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Becca at April 19, 2005 04:04 PM
Our entire site is managed in Dreamweaver. I wonder how GoLive likes Coldfusion or if we would have to jettison that. I know that one of the reasons we use Dreamweaver is that it works better than others with ColdFusion thingies (see my technical terms?)
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