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if adobe owned macromedia, then they'd own flash and shockwave and that would have to be worth 100s of millions. Adobe made their own vector plugins (SVG) and illustrator saves as that.. they did make their own equivalent of dreamweaver and a vector animation program but they gave up on it (even though they weren't exacty rubbish, they just weren't flash).. so !?! surely there's some anti-competition law in this.. but probably not.
I was pretty shocked. I think it's like Amiga buying Atari when they were both successful (assuming Amiga were bigger than Atari). I think it's pretty big - like who else makes software these days? There's Microsoft, Adobe, and Macromedia... and? who else big makes software? (excluding anti-virus stuff)
In your post you've put 'poo' and 'rubbish' - whereas I reckon Adobe and Macromedia seem more like quality software producers. Microsoft whilst the biggest software makers, are still poo as well. It sounds a bit like if Halifax/Bank of Scotland bought Natwest or vice versa.
it might be just me, but in terms of bigness, there's microsoft that do the same software every year, and nowadays its getting to be bug free, but equally, not so worth buying each time. But microsoft don't do software that 'exists' on the web, other than html interfaces (msn search etc.) Basically, because the internet is like for everyone, by everyone, the products you use to create web stuff, has now become adobe products. before, the images would be made in photoshop and the html design in dreamweaver, and if you were making something for some famous pop-stars you'd use flash/macromedia. If it weren't for the price, flash could be the only plugin you ever need. Like I reckon they do a fair bit of image software (the free stuff that comes with cameras) in flash just because they can, because it makes a simpler software devlopment environment. So was it a 3bn deal? Bargain I reckon. Imagine if advertisers had to pay 1 dollar for every time a flash advert came up on everyone's computer. Soon you'd be a billionaire.
according to some dude on slashdot.org they reckon Adobe bought Macromedia because they were worried Microsoft would buy Macromedia - so they thought they'd get them first.
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i use fireworks as a bitmap package (it's very good at saving web optimised jpegs/gifs). adobe illustrator is adobe's vector based graphics package.
i use fireworks as a bitmap package (it's very good at saving web optimised jpegs/gifs). adobe illustrator is adobe's vector based graphics package.
if adobe owned macromedia, then they'd own flash and shockwave and that would have to be worth 100s of millions. Adobe made their own vector plugins (SVG) and illustrator saves as that.. they did make their own equivalent of dreamweaver and a vector animation program but they gave up on it (even though they weren't exacty rubbish, they just weren't flash).. so !?! surely there's some anti-competition law in this.. but probably not.
Wow. I'm totally shocked. really. I haven't been this shocked for about as long as I can remember. this is totally huge.
I was pretty shocked. I think it's like Amiga buying Atari when they were both successful (assuming Amiga were bigger than Atari). I think it's pretty big - like who else makes software these days? There's Microsoft, Adobe, and Macromedia... and? who else big makes software? (excluding anti-virus stuff)
In your post you've put 'poo' and 'rubbish' - whereas I reckon Adobe and Macromedia seem more like quality software producers. Microsoft whilst the biggest software makers, are still poo as well. It sounds a bit like if Halifax/Bank of Scotland bought Natwest or vice versa.
it might be just me, but in terms of bigness, there's microsoft that do the same software every year, and nowadays its getting to be bug free, but equally, not so worth buying each time. But microsoft don't do software that 'exists' on the web, other than html interfaces (msn search etc.)
Basically, because the internet is like for everyone, by everyone, the products you use to create web stuff, has now become adobe products. before, the images would be made in photoshop and the html design in dreamweaver, and if you were making something for some famous pop-stars you'd use flash/macromedia. If it weren't for the price, flash could be the only plugin you ever need.
Like I reckon they do a fair bit of image software (the free stuff that comes with cameras) in flash just because they can, because it makes a simpler software devlopment environment.
So was it a 3bn deal? Bargain I reckon. Imagine if advertisers had to pay 1 dollar for every time a flash advert came up on everyone's computer. Soon you'd be a billionaire.
according to some dude on slashdot.org they reckon Adobe bought Macromedia because they were worried Microsoft would buy Macromedia - so they thought they'd get them first.
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