huh,really that?Adobe strengen its team power at any grafics making field assisted by Macromedia later.lots of phenomeno shows that Adobe have monopolised every known form of grafics making skill platform.very awesome action...but i still yean and like macromedia product especially flash and dreamweaver.i think everyone flash fans will sympathize with this action for macromedia with a bad grace.

mmmh I would love a "export as flash .fla animation" button in imageready (means no more lose importing images if I do a already doomed to fail attempt to make a flash website)

wowo! i am predicting that they would release far better softwares than just the Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Flash. probably an easier software to produce a very nice flash animations using images from Photoshop. I don't know much about creating a flash animation but I am now starting to learn the intermediate level of Adobe Photoshop CS, and in case the integrate the two programs it would be easier, helpful and fun to design graphics animations for my websites. I don't care if I have to learn more topics and tutorials about Photoshop as long as it will be more useful and for the advancement of the website designing world.

Just a thought..If all Macromedia required was Money, why it did not approach microsoft. Microsoft could have paid much more for the partnership. However, this is really a shocking news. Adobe will soon be the next big giant .. lets see what happens

Wow, I wish I had bought some Adobe stock back a while, it's sure to rise now... That is cool though, I can't wait to see the software that comes out in the next few years!!!

As I read on the internet Microsoft was willing to do so. But Adobe done it first. Now Microsoft pepple will be in deep trouble because Adobe and Macromedia will give Microsoft run for its money.

ok for those who don't understand law heres something for you all to learn it is illigal to monopolize in any industry if you all remember those who live in the states a few years ago with microsoft trying to monopolize it didn't work out to well they had to split the company into 2 parts and prevent bill gates from controlling the whole computer industry with his os the best thing they can do is 1 kept them seperate companies but create the staff 2 run both companies all but incorporate their technologies together yet still kept them apart if that makes sense

Thats a lot!
Its a load of money. They must be wanting the company bad

This is seriously bad, therefore no competition, just like how Microsoft is in the OS market. This is bad.... . If no competition, then prices will go higher and no one has elsewhere to go. Just like how 3/4 of Windows users have no where to go. (cept me, I can go for Linux, and Mac)

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indeed competitions make products better.. everyone knows that. Adobe after owning Macromedia will have no competition at all when it comes to productive software..

I just hope they know what they're doing...