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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. Fagoryz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    BE NIIGER! BE GAY! insIsted that

  2. What does the future hold for Flash? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No idea why people still code in C++ and Java. Get with the times! Macromedia Flash is gaining ground very quickly, and will soon overtake the aging "popular" programming languages. Those who have already tuned in to the wave of the future are using flash to program everything from command line utils to MMORPGs. You crusty unix programmers need to stop clinging to your old ways and modernize!

  3. you people by nashy-nunu · · Score: -1, Troll

    whine too much and bitch even more. It is all about the money. It is not about PDF or flash. It is about the money. It has been about the money and it will always be about the money.

  4. Getting back to Macromedia... by BrokenHalo · · 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.

  5. great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    two companys who produce giant bloated useless invasive garbage...

    becomming one giant company who produce bloated useless invasive garbage.

    I despise both flash and pdf. I cant decide if this is a good merger or not.

    Maybe we'll get lucky and adobe will bloat flash up even more than it is. And people will STOP MAKING FLASH ONLY SITES!

    Hey... I can hope.

  6. Macromedia needs house cleaning by Dracos · · 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.