adobe acquired macromedia!!! =/

SomberStrekking · Post by **SomberStrekking** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:34 am

no more flash movies andbody DAMN IT adobe has been planning on buying macromedia out for a little while now and they finally did it grrrr for a lot of money but they did do it and i like adobe and all but i am going to miss all the flash and shockwave stuff and what is going to happen with dreamweaver!!! anyways tell me what u think of this

(they bought them out for 3.4 billion)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4456895.stm
go there if u doubt me

Post by **melancholy** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:39 am

Didn't they do this a long time ago?

*edit: looks like I'm right, that article is dated April 18.

SomberStrekking · Post by **SomberStrekking** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:42 am

melancholy wrote:Didn't they do this a long time ago?

*edit: looks like I'm right, that article is dated April 18.

idc lol just no 1 said it so i thought id bring it up...

Post by **melancholy** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:45 am

SomberStrekking wrote:
melancholy wrote:Didn't they do this a long time ago?

*edit: looks like I'm right, that article is dated April 18.
idc lol just no 1 said it so i thought id bring it up...

Yeah, actually, we did bring it up. We just brought it up back in April.

SomberStrekking · Post by **SomberStrekking** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:47 am

melancholy wrote:
SomberStrekking wrote:
melancholy wrote:Didn't they do this a long time ago?

*edit: looks like I'm right, that article is dated April 18.
idc lol just no 1 said it so i thought id bring it up...
Yeah, actually, we did bring it up. We just brought it up back in April.

ok well i wasnt on that long ago.....

Vchat20 · Post by **Vchat20** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:52 am

i dont think flash is going anywhere. it is too widely used for adobe to kill it off. they would essentially be committing suicide if they did.

navi · Post by **navi** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:09 am

This is kinda old I knew about this ages ago.

butters · Post by **butters** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:18 am

When big company a aquires smaller company b, company b's products usually don't cease to exist unless they compete with those of company a. You have very little to worry about, as Adobe will likely expand on Macromedia's technologies and implement them into their own. Imagine getting Photoshop and Flash in the same software package

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:38 am

Oh yeah.

Adobe buying Macromedia means people won't be making Flash stuff anymore.

Because everybody on Newgrounds paid full price for their copies of Director or whatever.

Because warez is wrong and the majority of internet users have strong ethical grounds to not steal software they didn't pay for.

not just souLLy now · Post by **not just souLLy now** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:00 am

dreamweaver will either merge with golive, or golive will be phased out
photoshop will stay, fireworks will probably be intergrated into dreamweaver or flash
director is already being phased out
freehand will be phased out in favour of illustrator

i went to an official macromedia seminar a couple of weeks ago and this appeared to be what i took from them. flash is VERY much here to stay, seemed to me that macromedia's side of the company is pretty muh entirely focusing on flash now, the new video stuff as well as flashplayers on cellphones is all exciting stuff.

Covar · Post by **Covar** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:56 am

maybe this means someone will make a 64bit linux plugin for firefox.

stupid flash.