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  • From: Paul Smith <paul AT blinkylights.org>
  • To: kelly AT metalab.unc.edu, "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Adobe/Macromedia merger
  • Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 19:02:12 -0400

Kelly Jo Garner wrote:
I very well may be the last person to know about this:

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913949/000104746905012434/a2157203z425.htm

But what do other folks think? I know when Macromedia and Allaire merged,
some developer friends of mine were bummed - they had more respect for
Allaire as a company and their products in general than Macromedia. But
what prospects are there for Adobe and Macromedia - will current
developers shy away from a huge corporation and plow efforts back into
open source development/graphics tools? Or will people suck it up and move
on?

I haven't upgraded from Dreamweaver 4.0 or Photoshop 6.0 - they still
serve my purposes - but for folks who do have more recent products, what
do you think?

Cheers
KJ


I'm a web developer, so the first thing I wondered was how the merger impacts my unrealistic hopes that one day I'll be able to embed scriptable SVG markup right there in my XHTML. Adobe's historically been pro-SVG, while Macromedia seems to have been under the misapprehension that SVG and Flash would overlap somehow.
Probably a moot point, since inline standards-based vector graphics... well, that's probably a little too twenty-first century for our friends over at Microsoft, and most folks still (STILL!) use IE.

--P





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