Everyone start getting used to this phrase: "I develop applications using Adobe based products"
hehe if someone said that as of now i'd roll my eyes and go "what photoshop and pagemaker? yer..you really *ARE* a developer aren't you...clown" its going to be hard to get used to that now, adobe being a big power. On 4/21/05, grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was GAF on the whole buyout when i heard about it. but i've had time > to percolate on it and now i'm thinking it sucks. > > the allaire/macromedia saga was a fairly good fit for cf developers - > allaire needed more exposure and macromedia was the perfect company > for it. mm even took it a few large steps further and made some nice > advances in cf and the server tier - by introducing flex and flash > remoting they showed the they were commited to the product. macromedia > has always been a 'primary point' for web developers - dreamweaver > ain't that bad and for making 'webpages' it is definately better than > the competition. > > adobe on the other hand, is nothing like macromedia. adobe started out > with one really successful mac product. form there they've centered > around visual media - images, illustrations and movies. their best > 'web-capable' product is the PDF, and everybody knows how much pdfs > suck. it's like using paper. > > it's easy to work out that adobe has a lot of capital, and a large > client base. it's also easy to see that the company is turning stale - > being out-competed with existing products and no 'oooh' products for > years. the last time i oooh-ed at an adobe product was when i found > imageready bundled with ps5. but then i found fireworks and never > looked back. it's also obvious to see that mm is a rising star - the > flash player installs alone makes it worth +3bil, imho. > > so what's adobe doing? it appears that they want us, the mm market, > and that's where my problem lies. have a look at the adobe website and > then the mm website. the adobe site is generic, staid and aimed at the > broadest audience possible. the mm website is stylish and caters more > to the developers than the managers. i took pride in the macromedia > community. i like being part of a niche industry that knows where it > stands. i like the uniqueness of macromedia and they way it says, 'we > are designers, we developers, we are on the edge'. adobe just says, > 'we are corporate'. > > so is this it? am i to be assimilated into the adobe machine. will the > racyness of mm disappear into blandsville? will adobe even continue > with the mm product line - couldn't they be approaching this in a MS > way and killing the competition - 'flashpaper? never heard of it? > dreamweaver? don't you mean goLive?' whatever the result, i'm going to > be watching these companies closely over the next year or so. i'll > also be dusting off my java textbooks, as insurance. > > what does everybody think - is this a market grab, a competition > squash, or strategic maneuver, and where will it lead us? > > G > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com http://www.flexcoder.com (Coming Soon) --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
