Adobe acquires Macromedia

[Stephen Guerin]

Wow, Adobe sucks up Macromedia for 3.4 Billion. I didn't see that coming...

http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html

-S

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[Owen Densmore]

I suspect that's the end of anything good from Macromedia, alas.

Maybe we can get Adobe to open source Flash?  Adobe only cares about  
Dream Weaver and getting back into the web publishing business, I  
think.

Besides /. these are good:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/04/18/Adobe-Macromedia
http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/04/18/macrodobia/

It likely end's any hope of Macromedia on the Mac too:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?
sid=146467&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=98&mode=thread&cid=12270952

        -- Owen

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On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:31 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:

> Wow, Adobe sucks up Macromedia for 3.4 Billion. I didn't see that  
> coming...
>
> http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/ 
> adobe_macromedia.html
> http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html
>
> -S
>
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[Martin C. Martin]

Actually, Adobe is focusing on Acrobat and business applications:

http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3860760

- Martin

Owen Densmore wrote:

> I suspect that's the end of anything good from Macromedia, alas.
>
> Maybe we can get Adobe to open source Flash?  Adobe only cares about  
> Dream Weaver and getting back into the web publishing business, I  think.
>
> Besides /. these are good:
> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/04/18/Adobe-Macromedia
> http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/04/18/macrodobia/
>
> It likely end's any hope of Macromedia on the Mac too:
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?
> sid=146467&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=98&mode=thread&cid=12270952
>
>     -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore - http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com -  
> [hidden email]
>
> On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:31 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
>
>> Wow, Adobe sucks up Macromedia for 3.4 Billion. I didn't see that  
>> coming...
>>
>> http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/ adobe_macromedia.html
>> http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html
>>
>> -S
>>
>> _____________________________________________________________________
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>> www.Redfish.com
>> 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
>> mobile: [phone]
>> office: Santa Fe, NM [phone] / London, UK [phone]
>>
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>
>
>
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