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Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-a-whole-lotta-bread dept.

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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  1. Flash! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Woho! Saviour of the Universe

  2. I'm scared. :( by drunkennewfiemidget · · Score: 5, Funny

    What does it mean when the two most instrusive web browser plugin makers merge?

    1. Re:I'm scared. :( by Walkiry · · Score: 5, Funny

      That we can ignore them both with a single block when they merge? :)

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    2. Re:I'm scared. :( by pseudolus · · Score: 5, Funny

      It means that this guy will finally be able to send PDF attachments.

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    3. Re:I'm scared. :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I do. Adobe Reader is the crappiest piece of shit there is. Slows, segfaults, VERY SLOW TO STARTUP.

      Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE?

      Bleh.

    4. Re:I'm scared. :( by famebait · · Score: 5, Funny

      What does it mean when the two most instrusive web browser plugin makers merge?

      Probably that the next version of the flash plugin will take 15 minutes to fire up, just like everything else from Adobe, and that during that time your system will be too bogged down to respond to "back" or "close" or anyting else, so you'll finally have time to read all those paper publications again.

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    5. Re:I'm scared. :( by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      The only word I can think of to describe it is 'ACK!'

      SYN!

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  3. Microso..I mean..Adobe acquires Macromedia by Cjays · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  4. Re:Adobe Flash .. ? by neil.pearce · · Score: 5, Funny

    They could do it as a flick book

  5. Animated PDFs? by amichalo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  6. New name sucks by Linker3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...The new company will be called Adobe Systems, Inc."

    Who else is holding out for Macrodobia?

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  7. Re:IlluHand? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think what you were looking for is

    Freehand + Illustrator = Frustrator

  8. Re:Damn... by sepluv · · Score: 5, Funny



    You spelled "emacs" as "vi".

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  9. The Axis by RedLaggedTeut · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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