OMG! '// ======================================================== http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia. html
ADOBE TO ACQUIRE MACROMEDIA Combined Company to Deliver Industry-Defining Technology Platform for Rich, Interactive Content SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 18, 2005 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. '// ======================================================== It's also posted here: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html '// ======================================================== My personal take on this, having been in the industry this long... Dreamweaver and Flash will turn to crap (for lack of a more appropriate term) for at least 5 years. Every new release or update during this period will be haunted by screwed up attempts to integrate the 'Adobe' way of doing things into these applications until they eventually decide to completely redesign them both for want of being able to engineer them into their products correctly. The other 'non-major' apps (like FreeHand & Fireworks) will simply be discarded completely. I'd like to say that it's not REALLY that bleak and that Adobe would have learned SOMETHING after buying out the many businesses they have before, but I just don't see it. EVERY SINGLE TIME they buy a business/product it goes downhill until they rewrite it from scratch. It'll be interesting to watch how Flash develops (or, more likely, DIES) in the next year now that Adobe will be controlling it's fate. I recommend anyone currently focusing any of their energies into Flash development run screaming to learn SVG instead. Flash will lose significant market share and will no longer be supported the way it is now. Kiss it goodbye, the reaper has come. Regards, Shawn K. Hall http://12PointDesign.com/ http://ReliableAnswers.com/ '// ======================================================== "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." -- Mark Twain --------------------------------------------------------------------- Home : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/active-server-pages --------------------------------------------------------------------- Post : [email protected] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/active-server-pages/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
