Adobe Dreamweaver?

[drewan]

Oh my f'ing ghod!

Adobe buys maker of Flash, Dreamweaver [StarTribune]

Adobe to buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion [News.com]

If they kill Dreamweaver in favor of GoLive, I'm just going to give up on the internet.

Comments

[rasiler.livejournal.com]

Here's my comment I made in another friend's LJ just a couple minutes ago:

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Holy shit....that was an unexpected blow. One of those out-of-the-blue things that you could never possibly expect.

Being such a fan of Macromedia, this seems like a big negative to me.

What's interesting is that Macromedia is pretty much the industry leader for web production tools. They pretty much define the industry. Dreamweaver and Flash are absolutely unparalleled.

Adobe leads the market mainly in print production tools. Yeah, they have GoLive, which is a nice program, but it never penetrated the market to the extent that Dreamweaver has.

There are really only a few places where the two lines truly intersect. You can see why Adobe would want the aquisition. Its a case of 'do we expand more heavily into the web production arena and develop programs comparable to ColdFusion, Contribute, Flex (which is really amazing), etc. or do we just buy Macromedia and take theirs?'

So where does this leave product identity? Will Dreamweaver and GoLive be somehow combined? Will GoLive be phased out in favour of the more recognizable name? On the other hand, will Fireworks be phased out and Photoshop be expanded with some of Fireworks' better web production functionality? Will the Creative Suite and the MX lines remain seperate? Will there be a new third line that combines the best functionality of the two into one suite?

I can see FreeHand phased out completely in favour of Photoshop, InDesign, PageMaker, etc. I've never really gotten too fond of FreeHand anyway.

Anyway, it'll be interested to watch this develop.

[promethius.livejournal.com]

Dear god... I'd cry if Dreamweaver died for GoLive. I'd just cry.

eeep!

[redcub.livejournal.com]

Uh....please don't beat me up...but I've been working with the Creative Suite Edition of GoLive and it kinda doesn't suck. In fact, I've much more success creating product with it than I ever had trying to get through the MX tutorial.

I do know and understand that GoLive has been an outright joke in the past, and I know Dreamweaver has a lot of fans out there...And I want to say that Adobe buying up Flash and all that might NOT be the best thing for those two products...

...but it might not be as terrible as you think..?

Re: eeep!

[drewan.livejournal.com]

Well, I've worked with Dreamweaver for 7 years now. I've worked with GoLive for... 0 years. Yes, I'm biased.