The overlap comes because Macromedia (please note I use and love their products) copied a lot of Adobe in doing Freehand and Fireworks, not all, but a significant amount of user interface...
albano --- David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ > > Albano Garcia Photography & Graphic Design http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar http://www.flaneur.com.ar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Albano Garcia Photography & Graphic Design http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar http://www.flaneur.com.ar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
