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I say the later

I am most definitely ambivalent about this. What will happen to the competing applications (Dreamweaver vs. GoLive)? Will Adobe phase out one of them? I doubt it, but I still am ambivalent.

It's certainly not April 1.
Adobe press release

whoa.

that was.....left field.

I've never used products from either company so, for me, this thread is like a story about MicroSoft.

jondaris wrote:

test wrote:

I've never used products from either company so, for me, this thread is like a story about MicroSoft.

Then why are you bothering to post here? Just like to see your name up there?

I think this has the potential to be very bad for consumers. It essentially puts most of the professional web design, graphics and multimedia market under one roof.

I figure those of us who are not directly affected by the merger have a valid, if less important, perspective. We are all (me too) guilty of getting so wrapped up in our little niches that we all (me too) sometimes forget to consider maybe there are a bunch of people who are not affected by our problems and maybe even wouldn't be aware of our problems if we (me too) didn't mention them.

And, yeah, monopolies can be very bad for consumers. But, for the time being, monopoly seems to be seen as a good thing by many corporations - and governments, for whom monopolies make for simpler regulation and stuff.

Anyone remember the .0.2 update to Illustrator CS? Adobe basically gave users a hack to perform the upgrade. They didn't even change the splash screen. Point being, I'm sure we can expect more of the same from a company that doesn't have competing products.

My guess is Adobe is going to kill (at the least):
- FreeHand (Macromedia was probably going to kill it soon anyway though)
- RoboPDF (a really handy program on the PC for making PDFs)
- Contribute (maybe... then again I can see them turning it into Dreamweaver Elements)
- GoLive (Dreamweaver has a much bigger share of the market and name recognition)
- Fireworks (when you have Photoshop...)
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So here's hoping Apple doesn't piss Adobe off too bad with the new photo effects features built into Tiger. One wrong move and development for the platform may be in jeopardy.

jondaris wrote:

test wrote:

I've never used products from either company so, for me, this thread is like a story about MicroSoft.

Then why are you bothering to post here? Just like to see your name up there?

I think this has the potential to be very bad for consumers. It essentially puts most of the professional web design, graphics and multimedia market under one roof.

There's still Corel!

for now anyway...

Guess I'd better get my copy of GoLive now - tho I am wondering if Adobe will combine it with DW and come up with the best of both - can I hope?

Web design software drives me up the wall, anyway. I want to be able to create my pages in Illustrator and have everything stay where I put it!!

Don't the shareholders and SEC have something to say in this?

tripletmot wrote:

My guess is Adobe is going to kill (at the least):
- FreeHand (Macromedia was probably going to kill it soon anyway though)

been thinking that too, and it sucks, because I don't need all Illustrators gadgets, and prefer freehands UI feel..

HackerJax wrote:

Ah man that sucks.

Now we'll get the bloated slowness of adobe products across the whole macromedia line too.

Macromedia wasn't bloated slowness?

Picked this up from MacNN.
Freehand + Illustrator = Frustrator


What is it with the "e" key, I keep pressing one too many

Last edited by Thunderstruck (2005-04-18 9:34 am)