 Adobe To Purchase Macromedia. Wow!, For $3.4 Billion (appox.) |
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 Apr 20 2005, 05:03 AM
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Super Member  Group: Members Posts: 315 Joined: 1-October 04 From: India Member No.: 1,377  |
Yesterday I have read in the newspaper that Adobe is going to acquire Macromedia. It was a big news so I have checked it on the web and I found it true.
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelatio...macromedia.html This means that now Adobe will capture the whole Multimedia market. Let's wait and watch. |
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Apr 20 2005, 09:56 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 351 Joined: 19-October 04 From: India Member No.: 1,824 |
yeah, that ought to be a pretty big deal too...
so, what wud be the new name of the companies after acquisition??? thought company does not change name on aquisition but only in case of mergers.... macdobe??? or adomedia???  Cheers... |
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Apr 20 2005, 12:08 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 198 Joined: 9-October 04 From: Townsville, Australia Member No.: 1,560 |
Wow, this is truley a massive and unpredicted(well by me at least) merger. Does anybody have any more detail than the article. At this present time those two companies are the two power houses in the multimedia community and with those two merged it could spell some truely amazing products. Does anybody know whether or not they are still going to be operating still under the seperate titles(like adobe photoshop will still be adobe photoshop and macromedia flash will still be macromedia flash) or are they looking at perhaps combining sepeare programs and coming out with a multimedia suite. Could you imagine the multimedia authoring power of a suite of those two combined(not to mention the price). I think it's great and the quality of product is bound to rise. One then wonders how much companies would be making if piracy wasn't an option- a lot more than they already do, that's for sure! Any more info on the merger would be truley apprichiated.
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Apr 20 2005, 12:44 PM
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Gryp-ed Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: 14-February 05 From: Dubai, UAE Member No.: 3,756 |
What I love about this merge is that now we might expect an integration between the two softwares making website development much more easier. But, now that the competition is virtually killed, they might enter into a monopolistic phase and increase prices. Hope that doesn't happen.
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Apr 20 2005, 01:36 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 22-March 05 From: Phils Member No.: 4,807 |
thats a great news. hope that with this two great companies together, they should come up with a great software for those adobe and macromedia lover into one.
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Apr 20 2005, 01:38 PM
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Yeah, this is funky enough. Group: Members Posts: 193 Joined: 30-July 04 From: Lebanon Member No.: 293 |
Wow. I love Macromedia and its Flash toys, and I simply ADORE Photoshop CS. What's going to happen with these big names now? I'm thinking that Photoshop is going to have flash integration, Flash will aslo be integrated with ImageReady for the greatest web design support. This is REALLY big news, I never expected it. GO GO ADOBE!!!!! And for 3.4$ Billion, it's a really big transaction. I heard Microsoft spent 700 million on Rare? Adobe is really rich now
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Apr 20 2005, 02:11 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 110 Joined: 24-March 05 From: London, Ontario Member No.: 4,867 |
Man that certainly is big news, those two powerhouses joining up like that, hopefully they look into integrating Macromedia stuff into adobe stuff.
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Apr 20 2005, 02:20 PM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 936 Joined: 14-April 05 From: West Chester, PA Member No.: 5,636 |
Big deal but i wonder whats going to happen....I mean all of macromedia's software was a one and done deal. Their software had one purpose of which it did very well. However, Adobe normally links their software. For example, if you are making a DVD, you would need Encore, AfterEffects, etc. I just wonder if this is going to happen to Macromedia
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Apr 20 2005, 02:40 PM
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"Betsuni" Group: Members Posts: 1,023 Joined: 9-April 05 From: Japan Member No.: 5,445 |
Wow, that's amazing! I liked some of Adobe's products in the past (FrameMaker, In Design and of course Photoshop) but I also like what Macromedia has, too! (Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks). Now that the two companies will be one, I wonder what will happen next? Since Adobe usually develops for the Macintosh/OSX first, will that spill over into future products?
By the way, if there is a name change - maybe the Adobe and Macromedia names will be kept intact under an umbrella name like Adobe Multimedia Group. Just a thought. |
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