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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. this is bad news! by fribhey · · Score: -1, Redundant

    this is bad news!

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  2. WOW! by DoubleDangerClub · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This is quite an unexpected surprise for Monday morning. Woo!!! Now all the best graphics apps will be under one name!

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  3. Get the fuck out!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This is horrible news.
    I officially hate them more than Microsoft now.

  4. This is bad... by bcmm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, wait... This is good!

    They will integrate the flash plugin with the Acrobay PDF plugin, and flash animations will take 30 seconds to load on a 3GHz SMP machine, and THE BASTARDS WILL STOP USING FLASH!

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  5. Let me be the first to say... by WhiskerTheMad · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...shit...

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  6. Re:Sigh... We can only hope.... by fiannaFailMan · · Score: -1, Redundant
    *sigh*

    When will the /. Flash-bashers ever get over their knee-jerk reaction and actually make a little bit of effort to learn something about the benefits of Flash?

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  7. Re:Damn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant



    You spelled "nano" as "Vi" then "emacs"

  8. Re:Damn... by TheoMurpse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you all suck teh COCKX it's NOTEPAD ON WINDOEWS!1!

  9. Re:DreamweaverMX2004 is *good* by nitehorse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dude, that was Wesley Snipes.

  10. Re:DreamweaverMX2004 is *good* by Digital11 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wasn't that Wesley Snipes in Blade?

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