Thanks for the reply Tim. I just hope Adobe doesn't discard the style and branding that macromedia has built up. Especially the interfaces, cos the Adobe ones are lame and traditional. However as it is a takeover, MM probably will be assimilated and disappear into memory.
As a geek, i'd be proud to wear a MM tshirt - an Adobe tshirt, not so much... One says 'I am flash/CF/Flex/DW web L337!' the other says 'i make PDFs. don't sleep on my shoulder' or something. G On 4/21/05, Tim McAuliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant, > > You raise some valid points. It was a little disappointing to see the way > Adobe presented the aquisition - in a very plain and corporate PDF laden > page. It would have been a nice symbolic gesture to use a slick Breeze > preso that MM's been using to present their financials recently. > > However, I think there's still much to be optimistic about. Yes, Adobe > have a much more conservative image than MM. But rightly or wrongly, > that's what you need to crack the enterprise market. Within that market, > there's some incredible possibilities for combining ColdFusion with > Adobe's document workflow products. In this area they're actually doing > some interesting stuff. There's a good overview here: > http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3860760 > > It's still early days. A positive influence from Allaire certainly showed > after the last merger. I'm hopeful that some of the creative culture from > Macromedia will emerge at Adobe. As developers and customers, we're not > powerless in encouraging that. > > Just my $0.02 > > Tim > > --- > 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/ > --- 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/
