On Apr 19, 2005, at 5:07 AM, Albano Garcia wrote:
Adobe is maybe the only mega-corporation I like. Basically because they make excellent, top rate stuff. Macromedia products are excellent, so I suppose they'll become even better.
Well I for one am a little worried. There is far too much overlap in the respective products.
Illustrator / Freehand ImageReady / Fireworks Dreamweaver / GoLive to name a few.
I think they'll keep Dreamweaver - that has far too big an established market. As much as I like Fireworks, I fear that it'll be replaced with ImageReady (which I do not like).
The reason I like Fireworks is because of its brilliant integration of raster and vector graphics, and because it's easy for me to slice images for web use (images that I normally create in Photoshop). I suppose the fact that I've had training in Fireworks but not in ImageReady might bias my judgement somewhat :)
Some people have speculated that Flash might get a good makeover, considering that Adobe had sued Macromedia over their user interface. I found Flash to be OK to use with a little guidance from a book, but I have only used it for basic animation so far.
Someone else commented (on Slashdot, I think) that it gives Adobe a lot of power over Apple. Imagine if Photoshop and Dreamweaver were pulled from MacOS and made Windows-only.
Anyway it will be interesting to see what the SEC says. Do you think there will still be enough competition in the marketplace?
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
