Well, it is a pretty obvious takeover. Freehand, Flashpaper, Fireworks are all products in the same area as Illustrator and Adobe PDF. The only thing is, nobody really saw it coming.
In the past, Adobe also had a competing product for Flash, but that didn't work out very well and was put off the market pretty quick. Overall, the products of both companies have a match, and Macromedia sure needs some Adobe budget muscles. It seems the CF product line may be getting extra budget for marketing. Maybe we have a nice feathered CF logo in spring 2005. I don't think this acquisition is sad, I think Macromedia really needs a strong partner and Adobe clearly is one. Micha Schopman Project Manager ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
