It's been 10 years. Some of my memory is fuzzy. :) Regardless, Adobe didn't kill off Spectra, so it's hard to fault them for that.
Scott On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Raymond Camden <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:341701 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
