Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B

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Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday April 18, 2005 @02:00AM 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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Getting back to Macromedia... by BrokenHalo · 2005-04-18 04:01 · Score: 1, Troll

Well, as far as I'm concerned, Flash does nothing well except make it easy for web developers to produce bandwidth-consuming tinsel presentations with no content, and the world would be a better place without it.
Macromedia needs house cleaning by Dracos · 2005-04-18 05:41 · Score: 0, Troll

Hopefully Fireworks will die. It's created a generation of web designers that think png is its version of psd.

FlashMX has one of the worst user interfaces ever, IMO. Maybe Adobe will make it not a big pile of suck.

Freehand... meh.

Dreamweaver is nearly incapable of producing standards compliant pages. It is the crutch that let clueless designers continue to earn a living.

I don't know anyone that actually likes ColdFusion as a development platform, but I suspect it may be the reason for the whole deal.

Macromedia is notorious for giving lipservice to web standards and accessibility. Hopefully the people at Adobe that have a clue about these things will clean house.

Macromedia and its products, to me, have always been more style than substance. Every one of their products that I've used was very crash prone, and therefore felt like cheap knockoffs of other companies' products.

I'm not a total Adobe fan, though. If their products weren't so overpriced, Macromedia wouldn't have been able to get marketshare with Fireowrks and Freehand.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.