Adobe to buy Macromedia

[RagingBITCH]

Hmm.......we currently sublease an office from Macromedia at work. They recently started sending in a bunch of people from India here to work on a project, wonder how that affects that (and our sublease)

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: werk
Maybe they can get some folks from Macromedia to fix Illustrator...what a crap program.

:Q What's wrong with Illustrator?

 

[GoatHerderEd]

*sigh* I cant wait for the load times of the applications to increase. Much like acrobat reader 5 to 6. Why does adobe make a READER take so long to load. it is so iritating. Next time you see a flash thing, it will have to load, just wait. youl see.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs

Originally posted by: Jehovah

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
This won't be good.

This can't be good.

This wan't be good.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: GoatHerderEd
*sigh* I cant wait for the load times of the applications to increase. Much like acrobat reader 5 to 6. Why does adobe make a READER take so long to load. it is so iritating. Next time you see a flash thing, it will have to load, just wait. youl see.

because adobe stinks and everything they make is garbage.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

no way... i love dreamweaver, i never liked Adobe's Web creation software Go Live.

 

[mmx]

Wow, can you imagine, a DREAMWEAVER, FLASH, COLDFUSION with Photoshop, acrobat, ....

It will be awesome IF THEY INTEGRATE. i hate in photoshop the integration of imageready.

Unless they integrate whats the poin for us.

 

[Czar]

and then there was one

 

[mmx]

Wow, can you imagine, a DREAMWEAVER, FLASH, COLDFUSION with Photoshop, acrobat, ....

It will be awesome IF THEY INTEGRATE. i hate in photoshop the integration of imageready.

Unless they integrate whats the poin for us.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Hmm, so what does it mean for the Macromedia MX products? Is it going to be discontinued, or be just more expensive?

 

[Audiotherapy]

didnt adobe try to sue macromedia a few years ago?

i'd much rather see macromedia acquire adobe... but that will never happen

 

[Quasmo]

This is quite the undesirable proposition. I hope they dont ruin dreamweaver, Dreamweaver's ability to itegrate so well with php/mySQL is great. I can't see Adobe doing anything good with it, considering how bad goLive is, and how poorly it really implements web development. Atleast we'll get a export to Flash option in Illistrator.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Kev
because adobe stinks and everything they make is garbage.

:thumbsup:

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
This is quite the undesirable proposition. I hope they dont ruin dreamweaver, Dreamweaver's ability to itegrate so well with php/mySQL is great. I can't see Adobe doing anything good with it, considering how bad goLive is, and how poorly it really implements web development. Atleast we'll get a export to Flash option in Illistrator.

I'd be willing to bet Adobe drops GoLive, and rolls some features into Dreamweaver. I've used GoLive for quite some time now, and like it fine. Never used Dreamweaver, so maybe I don't know what I'm missing?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Holy crap! Just when I thought Macromedia products were the cheaper alternative! How could the FCC allow this? Adobe is the Microsoft of its business...in other words, a monopoly!!!

:|

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: Kev

Originally posted by: GoatHerderEd
*sigh* I cant wait for the load times of the applications to increase. Much like acrobat reader 5 to 6. Why does adobe make a READER take so long to load. it is so iritating. Next time you see a flash thing, it will have to load, just wait. youl see.

because adobe stinks and everything they make is garbage.

reader 7 loads in a FLASH much faster than 5 or 6

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Holy crap! Just when I thought Macromedia products were the cheaper alternative! How could the FCC allow this? Adobe is the Microsoft of its business...in other words, a monopoly!!!

:|

What the hell does the FCC have to do with this?

 

[ViRGE]

Remember folks, this is Adobe buying MM, not a merger. Adobe can(and probably will) pick their products over MM's where there's overlap.

 

[Drakkon]

as a flash developer whos having to deal with my graphics guy who loves his adobe products all i can say is halelujah!!!
hopefully now we can get a true File-Export-to fla in both illustrator and photoshop
Adobe had a weekness in their web componets divison and now they've totoally gone and changed the game so i say more power to this merger so long as they dont do away with flash or director or dreamweaver or coldfusion. Doing away with ANY of those would make this a dead deal

 

[Drakkon]

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/AdobeMacromediaFAQ.pdf - wow they prettymuch spelled out a ton of stuff...including how flashplayer will combine with adobe reader :shocked:

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/AdobeMacromediaFAQ.pdf - wow they prettymuch spelled out a ton of stuff...including how flashplayer will combine with adobe reader :shocked:

Flash player is combining with Acrobat Reader!? We're boned I tell you! :Q

 

[Futher]

All new programs = all new money to spend that I don't have =/

 

[glugglug]

Flash player combined with Acrobat Reader = Adblock now REQUIRED to use any browser.

 

[Baked]

Weeeeak.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
i say more power to this merger so long as they dont do away with flash or director or dreamweaver or coldfusion. Doing away with ANY of those would make this a dead deal

ColdFusion is so dead it's not even funny. The only people still using it are those who invested in its pricey server software X years ago and have no option but to save face and keep running it. It's too bad - was great technology that priced itself out of the running...

With that said - I do hope Adobe puts a recharge into it, but with Adobe's history, there's no sign of that happening.