See here
I was very suprised when I saw it on the beeb website.
Does this mean the end of Fireworks?
Does this mean the end of Fireworks?
Maybe, I don't know. I guess they have bought Macromedia mainly because of Dreamweaver and Flash. For the image apps they will probably set priorities for their own products.
I have never worked with Adobe products, but know a couple of people who say that the usability is much inferior to the Macromedia products. However, as far as I know, image editing is mostly done with Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator, particularly in the printing industry. So they won't drop their own stuff, even if it is less user friendly.
I just don't hope that this merger will make them so busy that it has too many negative effects on the products. (My own primary interest is in Flash.)
I have never worked with Adobe products, but know a couple of people who say that the usability is much inferior to the Macromedia products. However, as far as I know, image editing is mostly done with Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator, particularly in the printing industry. So they won't drop their own stuff, even if it is less user friendly.
I just don't hope that this merger will make them so busy that it has too many negative effects on the products. (My own primary interest is in Flash.)
IWhen I first read it it gave me a headache but I found a more positive slant on it here
http://news.com.com/Macromedia,+Adobe+make+peace+for+bigger+fight/2100-1012_3-5675158.html
http://news.com.com/Macromedia,+Adobe+make+peace+for+bigger+fight/2100-1012_3-5675158.html
I see nothing good coming from this at all..
Now that Adobe/Flash is an open competitor of MS, is it going to come to be as buggy to run Flash as it is to run Java on Windows?
I was informed yesterday by the DIRECT-L Forum (MM Director User Forum). The merge still need to be approved by shareowners and USA commissions.
About products, the only I see as really overlapping is DreamWeaver over GoLive, but GoLive is far less widespread. All the other conflicting products have a clear winner, either form MM or Adobe. And for server side I cannot see products overlapping.
In my opinion MM Fireworks is not a competitor of PhotoShop, althought FW is far far more usable, FW manages only RGB images at screen resolution sizes while PS support CMYK, color correction, huge images and many more paper printing features.
I liked this translation from PR-speak to English of selected portions of Adobes FAQ:
http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translation
http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translation