Yeah, it was Macromedia

MD

On 29 Jan 2011, at 14:59, Raymond Camden <rcam...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Spectra did sell well. I don't have the sales #s but it was a good
> seller - especially in Europe I believe. Allaire did not cancel it -
> Macromedia did.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Scott Brady <dsbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> 

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