Adobe buys Macromedia

**Damien** · 18-04-2005, 09:34

Adobe is going to buy macromedia.

So now dreamweaver, flash and so on will be added to the existing line of products such as photoshop.

They are going to be a massive design software company now. Every major design tool is owned by them now. Cue expensive prices for all of macromedias price

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...top_world_news

Richard M · 18-04-2005, 09:40

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Originally Posted by Damien

Cue expensive prices for all of macromedias price

And Macromedia wasn't expensive in the first place?

Bifta · 18-04-2005, 10:09

Slightly worrying being as Adobe has competitive software:

Dreamweaver = GoLive
Freehand = Illustrator
Fireworks = Photoshop

**Damien** · 18-04-2005, 10:14

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Originally Posted by Richard M

And Macromedia wasn't expensive in the first place?

not for students

While photoshop is still expensive for students

Millay · 18-04-2005, 10:34

hmmm does casue one to wonder what is going to happen to the cross over products, we already lot homesite, to dreamweaver, if we loose dreamweaver to golive, might be time to crack out notepad again..

**Damien** · 18-04-2005, 10:48

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Originally Posted by Millay

hmmm does casue one to wonder what is going to happen to the cross over products, we already lot homesite, to dreamweaver, if we loose dreamweaver to golive, might be time to crack out notepad again..

Surely they will keep the strongest product

Gareth · 18-04-2005, 11:00

Interesting news - I like Macromedia products, Dreamweaver is fantastically good, imo.

Will be interesting to see how they merge their product sets. As you say, they should keep the strongest, but often companies attempt to merge previously competing products into 1 package.

**Damien** · 18-04-2005, 11:04

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Originally Posted by Gareth

Interesting news - I like Macromedia products, Dreamweaver is fantastically good, imo.

Will be interesting to see how they merge their product sets. As you say, they should keep the strongest, but often companies attempt to merge previously competing products into 1 package.

Well hopefully they may do that well.

What worrys me is the price of adobe do not like offering stuent prices while macromedia effectively give it to us. Also dreamweaver seems quite streamlined and less bloated.

Bifta · 18-04-2005, 11:06

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Originally Posted by Millay

hmmm does casue one to wonder what is going to happen to the cross over products, we already lot homesite, to dreamweaver, if we loose dreamweaver to golive, might be time to crack out notepad again..

You haven't lost Homesite, it's available on the Macromedia Studio MX CD.

Millay · 18-04-2005, 11:14

I know bifta, but it seased active development a long time ago, and was left quite buggy with memory issues..

philip.j.fry · 18-04-2005, 11:27

Dreamweaver makes me cry...my beautiful code I say but it just laughs at me and rearranges it all anyway

Halcyon · 18-04-2005, 11:27

Photoshop is quality and so is Flash and Dreamweaver.
Its true they are very expensive though. Maybe they will do combo packs at special rates for all the packages. We'l have to see.

Gareth · 18-04-2005, 12:18

I don't know many students that actually buy software anyway.... and the price they charge is nothing for a corporation to pay.

jrhnewark · 18-04-2005, 12:28

Dreamweaver must beat GoLive hands-down, surely?

Caspar · 18-04-2005, 12:43

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Originally Posted by philip.j.fry

Dreamweaver makes me cry...my beautiful code I say but it just laughs at me and rearranges it all anyway

To be fair I only use Dreamweaver for the color taggind....so if I had to foot the bill, and not the company...then I would use one of the many free color tagging applications...cause you only need the code-view....the bloated features in DW...like live site etc...and the WYSIWYG view are laughable.

Just turn the view to coders-view