So long, Macromedia
Dec 26, 12:54 AM—Micah Wylde
Adobe has completed its acquisition of its main competitor, Macromedia, and a new design of the Macromedia web site reflects this. Qualms about the new sites' design aside, It seems that Adobe is determined to completely internalize the company. From documents on its website, Adobe claims that no products will be made unavailable for sale:
but it seems inevitable that from those products which previously competed with each other (Photoshop/Fireworks, GoLive/Dreamweaver, FreeHand/Illustrator, etc.) one will be culled. Unfortunately, this likely means that Fireworks, an excellent web image editing app, will likely be cut.
While both companies have along history of producing quality software (with a few notable exceptions from each...acrobat), and ideally the lack of competition in many fields will not be the catalyst for a standstill of innovation.
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