Adobe buys Macromedia
Adobe has come to an agreement to acquire Macromedia for $3.4 billion. Really interesting. I wonder how this would effect the developer & designer community.
Update : Yesterday's release
19/04/05
Update : Yesterday's release
19/04/05
posted by Asela at 2:29 AM
4 Comments:
Damn... This is frightening. If this happened a few billion years ago, it would've created a big bang and resulted in a very creative universe. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
i notice that digg.com is just now breaking this. I use Adobe extensively, but Macromedia is more heavily web integrated. I wonder if they're going to phase out overlapping software like Freehand?
Important thing is that this clearly creates a monopoly in terms of online presentation formats.And we may expect a higher price tag too.
But the interesting thing would be the way they merge two product lines. I wish they may maintain two lines for DTP & web. (I highly dought though)
oh.. no.. I don't need a Dreamweaver CS..! never...
I think this is scary because of the monopoly it creates. And I too hope that DTP and Web are developed seperately. On the plus side, we may see more PS - Flash intergration, making it easier for die hard PS users. As Prabhath says, let's wait and see..
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