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Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B
Kobayashi Maru writes "A press release from Adobe announces that they will buy Macromedia for approximately $3.4 billion. The new company will be called Adobe Systems, Inc."
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Woho! Saviour of the Universe
Now we'll never see DreamWeaver on Linux.
What does it mean when the two most instrusive web browser plugin makers merge?
Well, if any of you are irritated by Flash, this move should reduce the number of folks using it. It'll be too bloated to load within a release or two.
What'dya mean there's no BLINK tag!?
Bring on the horrors...sigh.
Who gets Freehand this time?
echo 33676832766569823265328479713269.8639857989Pq | dc
This will probably mean:
- Adobe will kill off Freehand, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks, and incorporate any good features from them into Illustrator, GoLive, and ImageReady, respectively.
- Photoshop and Flash will remain the same, since neither had competition from the other company.
- They'll probably maintain 'lite' versions of all of the above, giving consumers the illusion of choice.
- Corel will acquire the company that makes Preparation H, since their asses will hurt so much from shitting a few tons of bricks.
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Adobedriva.
They could do it as a flick book
>How would 'movie' files be translated to paper?
;-)
I take you haven't seen Minority Report yet?
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The calculation I keep running over in my mind is:
Adobe PDF + Macromedia Flash = Annimated PDFs
Somehow I think Bill Gates is behind all this
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
"...The new company will be called Adobe Systems, Inc."
Who else is holding out for Macrodobia?
AT&ROFLMAO
I don't care about fireworks, flash, whatever. BUT if they kill off Dreamweaver, I will have a major vendetta with Adobe!
They should call it Macadamia! Just a nutty suggestion..
$3.4B and can't survive a slashdotting?
somebody needs to invest in some hobby boxes...
I think what you were looking for is
Freehand + Illustrator = Frustrator
In my day, we didn't have html pages with all their fancy newfangled tables and images. We could only read plain, unformatted text and click on hyperlinks, and we liked it!
steampunk web design
Hey maybe we can hope for a QuickTime and Real Audio merger too.
I've seen dreamweaver using CSS, and it usually goes "style1, style2,.." etc. and not a single style re-used.
This is hardly better than using the FONT tag. You'd have to set the style manually to make it work as intended. I guess you can do that in Dreamweaver too, but most Dreamweaver "experts" don't seem to care.
Maybe my attitude towards Dreamweaver and Photoshop would be best described by the ad slogan: "The right tools to get the job done even if you have no clue".
There is irony in that line, but I guess most people whose identity is defined by being an Photoshop/Dreamweaver expert will probably miss it.
I'm sorry, I should have shut up, but I think Adobe and Dreamweaver make a good match.
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
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Acrobat is beyond bloatware.
Flash tracks users better than cookies.
Both were being used to push 3rd party products.
I'll stick with RTF and TXT.
Is this what all those 'futurists' were talking about when they said there'd be a 'digital convergence'?
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