To be fair to Adobe, two of the products you mentioned they killed off were a result of the Macromedia purchase which led to them having duplicate products (Dreamweaver vs. GoLive, Freehand vs. Illustrator, Fireworks vs. ImageReady, etc.), so it made sense from a business standpoint to kill one off. And, to their benefit, they didn't just kill the Macromedia versions, but seemed to keep the better (at least more successful) one. Of course, Spectra just wasn't a successful product (and that was killed by Allaire, I believe), so that just made good business sense.
Scott On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Mike Chabot <[email protected]> wrote: > > I fully agree. The pace of change in Microsoft land is very stressful to > developers. They kill off and deprecate multiple technologies and product > features each year. Microsoft scrapping DTS sent many database developers > back into training classes. Adobe also has a history of killing off > products. GoLive, Freehand and Spectra come to mind. Granted, Adobe is > nowhere near as bad as Microsoft in this regard. > > -Mike Chabot > > -- ----------------------------------------- Scott Brady http://www.scottbrady.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341687 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
