09 February 2006
Should I Be Worried? Or Just Angry?
I have always remained faithful to Macromedia products for a number of reasons. First, they were what I started using when I began my journey. Second, they have done everything I've ever asked them to do. And third, the competition really turned me off (Microsoft and Adobe products mainly). So you can imagine my shock and fear when they announced the merger between Macromedia and Adobe.
How can they do this? I asked myself. You can see from the graphic above, times are changing! They are already bundling Macromedia Studio 8 with Adobe CS2. But I can see at some point being able to purchase one combined "web developer" product - possibly the following:
- Dreamweaver (better not mess with that...)
- Flash (better not mess with that...)
- Photoshop
- Premiere (possibly for working with video?)
- Illustrator
- Acrobat
I envision Fireworks and Freehand going away for good. Very sad, but with the power of Photoshop, it just makes good business sense.
So we'll have to see how it all works out. But my question still begs to be answered, "Should I be worried? Or just angry?"
