Goodbye Macromedia, It’s Been Fun
December 5, 2005 by Jeff Purcell
If you happend to waddle over to Macromedia’s website today, you might have noticed the banner atop the page adorned with the adobe logo and off to the right text displaying “formerly macromedia”. Adobe completed the acquistion of Macromedia and has already set the wheels in motion to integrate the two design studios.
Announcements have been made stating that new software bundles will be released that includes software from both lines. One labeled a Design bundle with Adobe CS2 Premium and Macromedia Flash Pro 8. Another titled the Web bundle will feature CS2 Premium and the full Macromedia Studio 8. A third package is expected dealing largely in video, but nothing solid has been said as of yet.
I trust that Adobe won’t mar the great software that Macromedia has built over the years. I believe that this acquistion can bring design software to an all new level and maybe even some new web technologies.
Tags: macromedia, adobe, dreamweaver, flash pro 8, acquisition, web
I’m not sure about this yet, I suppose we’ll have to see. I trust in Adobe of course, but those Macromedia have built their own little home in my heart.
I’m with Josh on this one, but at the same time, I’m excited, too. Dreamweaver 8 supposedly supports external style-sheets by default now, which is cool. And ANYTHING Adobe could do to Flash, like update the antique Sorenson video codec, or build in real-time previews, would be a welcome improvement. But hey, I can’t afford any of it anyway, so who cares.