Comments on: Adobe to buy Macromedia in $3.4 billion stock deal http://www.atmasphere.net/archives/2005/04/18/adobe-to-buy-macromedia-in-34-billion-stock-deal a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:14:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gary http://www.atmasphere.net/archives/2005/04/18/adobe-to-buy-macromedia-in-34-billion-stock-deal/comment-page-1#comment-3367 Gary Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:09:52 +0000 http://www.atmasphere.net/wp/archives/2005/04/18/adobe-to-buy-macromedia-in-34-billion-stock-deal#comment-3367 I'd bet quite a bit that Dreamweaver will be the flagship Professional tool and GoLive will fill the 'Prosumer' (God, I hate that word) niche. I don't now too many designers that use GoLive. Obviously, Flash will completely dominate Adobe's lame SVG implementation, which will probably end up on the dung heap. I'm interested to see what will happen to Fireworks. Early Photoshop functionality was buggy for creating animated GIFs, but apparently they have gotten much better and lots of people have switched. I’d bet quite a bit that Dreamweaver will be the flagship Professional tool and GoLive will fill the ‘Prosumer’ (God, I hate that word) niche. I don’t now too many designers that use GoLive.

Obviously, Flash will completely dominate Adobe’s lame SVG implementation, which will probably end up on the dung heap.

I’m interested to see what will happen to Fireworks. Early Photoshop functionality was buggy for creating animated GIFs, but apparently they have gotten much better and lots of people have switched.

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