Adobe to acquire Macromedia

[kyber]

This may be of interest to some of you.

A few links:

http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html
http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/007504.cfm

Macromedia are famous for Dreamweaver - the market leading tool for website development - and infamous for Flash (which Macromedia bought from a small compay years ago when it was call Splash and produced files in the Splash Wave Format hence the .SWF file name extension).

Adobe are famous for Photoshop - the market leading tool for graphics/photo editing - and for PDF/Acrobat.

The two boards are up for it. Other steps to go through.

Should be interesting to see what happens to the various products.

Stuart

[Webstuff]

This could mean a good boost for adobes' SVG, which in my opinion could replace flash (or at least compete with its functionality) if given the chance.

[buying_it]

I think this could lead to some interesting offshoots - although I worry about what might happen to the macromedia products (I can just imagine Adobe dumping products left and right)

I really hope they manage to combine fireworks and photoshop - that would be a fantastic combination - if they could get all of the products onto the Adobe interfaves that would be amazing.

Just my thoughts,

Andy

[tollyboy]

Adobe will probably keep Dreamweaver and Flash. Both too strong to get rid of. Fireworks may be integrated into Photoshop.

The biggest losers will be Freehand users as Illustrator is far too profitable to simply dump.

GoLive users could lose out too, to Dreamwever. Dont expect this to happen any time soon though...

[mylocalentertainment]

Yeah I think they plan to erase Director MX and develop flash further, not to sure about what will come of fireworks and freehand. But lets face it when the dust has settled as long as their not money grabbing monsters that will be one superb creative package they will offering.

Ian