Comments on: Is the Fat Lady Singing — Macromedia/Adobe Merger http://blog.w3conversions.com/2005/10/is-the-fat-lady-singing-macromediaadobe-merger/ realizations on life, the web, and everything Mon, 16 Mar 2015 06:43:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Owen Dearing http://blog.w3conversions.com/2005/10/is-the-fat-lady-singing-macromediaadobe-merger/comment-page-1/#comment-3296 Owen Dearing Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:36:40 +0000 http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=614#comment-3296 The really worrisome thing to me is the fact that MM and Adobe will no longer be competing, which in the long run means we will pay more for future products, and there will not be as much pressure on Adobe to come up with new or updated software until they feel they want to. In the digital camera realm, Canon is the sales leader, but Nikon is always hovering somewhere in the background. If Canon were to purchase Nikon, I suspect that new Canon cameras would not be as quick to be released, and prices would go up substantially. Another example, take Apple out of the picture entirely, and maybe we'd all be using Windows 98 still! I don't have any feelings one way or another towards any of the above mentioned corporations, but I do think that the trickle down to us web designers with Adobe now being the monopoly cannot be good. The really worrisome thing to me is the fact that MM and Adobe will no longer be competing, which in the long run means we will pay more for future products, and there will not be as much pressure on Adobe to come up with new or updated software until they feel they want to. In the digital camera realm, Canon is the sales leader, but Nikon is always hovering somewhere in the background. If Canon were to purchase Nikon, I suspect that new Canon cameras would not be as quick to be released, and prices would go up substantially. Another example, take Apple out of the picture entirely, and maybe we’d all be using Windows 98 still! I don’t have any feelings one way or another towards any of the above mentioned corporations, but I do think that the trickle down to us web designers with Adobe now being the monopoly cannot be good.

]]> By: ethan http://blog.w3conversions.com/2005/10/is-the-fat-lady-singing-macromediaadobe-merger/comment-page-1/#comment-3295 ethan Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:31:23 +0000 http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=614#comment-3295 i'm more negative about the outlook. I don't see adobe changing their ways and actually valuing community input. I alsop don't think that buying MM will suddenly turn adobe into a community centric company. Why haven't they done this before during CS and CS2 development. Because they are not interested in that form of relationship-they are much more Microsoft-like in their approach. i’m more negative about the outlook. I don’t see adobe changing their ways and actually valuing community input. I alsop don’t think that buying MM will suddenly turn adobe into a community centric company. Why haven’t they done this before during CS and CS2 development. Because they are not interested in that form of relationship-they are much more Microsoft-like in their approach.

]]> By: Stef. http://blog.w3conversions.com/2005/10/is-the-fat-lady-singing-macromediaadobe-merger/comment-page-1/#comment-3294 Stef. Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:15:48 +0000 http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=614#comment-3294 I agree with you on most counts. Freehand is likely sunk (I was hoping they would be forced by the DOJ to sell FH). Fireworks MAY be safe since I agree that the vectorism that is FW is definitely different than Photoshop (thus the reason I love receiving FW comps to work from so much more). :) <br /> <br />While I do agree with some of the points at Daring Fireball, I am choosing to believe that the real reason behind the purchase of Macromedia is Flash. Pure and simple. They see the potential, they couldn't build it, so they bought it. I think many of the Flash-based products will also be safe (Breeze, Flex, Captivate) for the same reason. Dreamweaver's good since it's the market leader. MM undoubtedly owns the web as far as professional development goes. So now, the market Adobe hasn't been able to penetrate, is theirs. <br /> <br />That's my theory anyway -- obviously time will tell. I agree with you on most counts. Freehand is likely sunk (I was hoping they would be forced by the DOJ to sell FH). Fireworks MAY be safe since I agree that the vectorism that is FW is definitely different than Photoshop (thus the reason I love receiving FW comps to work from so much more). :)

While I do agree with some of the points at Daring Fireball, I am choosing to believe that the real reason behind the purchase of Macromedia is Flash. Pure and simple. They see the potential, they couldn’t build it, so they bought it. I think many of the Flash-based products will also be safe (Breeze, Flex, Captivate) for the same reason. Dreamweaver’s good since it’s the market leader. MM undoubtedly owns the web as far as professional development goes. So now, the market Adobe hasn’t been able to penetrate, is theirs.

That’s my theory anyway — obviously time will tell.

]]> By: Stéphane Bergeron http://blog.w3conversions.com/2005/10/is-the-fat-lady-singing-macromediaadobe-merger/comment-page-1/#comment-3293 Stéphane Bergeron Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:53:28 +0000 http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=614#comment-3293