RSSAdobe, Macromedia Almost Together
By the Betanews Staff | Published December 2, 2005, 3:30 PM
Adobe said late Thursday that it had received clearance from the Justice Department to complete its $3.4 billion merger with software company Macromedia. In July, the DOJ indicated it was looking into the merger and requested more information on the companies' products in authoring and design, as well as vector graphics illustration.
Completion of the merger is expected on Saturday, ending a seven-month process that would create arguably the most powerful multimedia and design company in the industry. Adobe also announced that it would provide analysts a look into the newly combined company's finances in a conference call scheduled for December 15.
g** d*** it. I’m not looking forward to a bloated and buggy piece of crap. I hate adobe. First the bought out Cool Edit now they want to screw the best web editors up too. I hate adobe. I hate them, I hate them, I hate them!!!!
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|pdf995, and foxit. Foxit opens in 1/20th the time, and there's no freakin' reason to pay a dime to make a pdf.
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|Hardly anybody would consider changing from PDF which is familiar and somewhat allowed to be supported by 3rd party applications, to Metro- a unproven proprietary format by a company known for poising other companies use of standards (see the efforts of Microsoft Java to destroy real Java). The only possible successor to PDF can be from the open source community, but as long as Adobe is reasonable in its allowing of 3rd party use and creating of PDF that may not be necessary, PDF may be the way forever.
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|PDF is crap. I've seen PDF files bring multiple print servers to their knees, the files are usually very large. The Government and many courts are changing to this format for electronic filing. How appropriate.
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|hmmm..look like adobe wanna take over web and artwork software market ^^
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|hmmm...look like adobe wanna take the most control of the web and art software market ^^
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|actually macromedia take over adobe..so macromedia taking the print market
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|Of course, this is all really just my opinion, but...
I absolutely despise the PDF format, in general, and yet for my job I'm required to use it. I'm really looking forward to considering Metro, although I don't expect Metro to succeed very quickly. The only good products from Adobe are Photoshop and Illustrator, and I can imagine they're pretty nervous about Microsoft Acrylic. GoLive is just horrible... not very designer-friendly, so I can understand why they want Dreamweaver, Flash, and Shockwave. PageMaker is another of the last decent holdouts, but even it hasn't had the support the other products have been given, and QuarkXpress and other competitors have taken over in much of the print industry (all the newspaper printers in my area are Quark users).
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|Agreed. I have to use PDF in my work but I absolutely hate it. It has become bloated crap. In my office it's known as Pretty Damned Forked.
Many years ago PDF was little more than a printer driver that wrote to a file instead of a printer, and had Acrobat to view the print file. Great idea. If only Adobe had stuck with it instead of loading it up with mountains of junk that has nothing whatever to do with its original purpose. That was about 15 years ago, if my memory serves well, and in all that time Adobe has been charging stupidly high prices for this thing that's basically a two-cents utility at heart.
Frankly after 15 years of using it I'm ready to strangle it. Please someone save us from this crap!
There is a dire need for a PDF-like way to publish docs, preferably open source so it gets adopted widely by the public, operating systems and applications.
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|Adobe has been charging stupidly high prices for this thing that's basically a two-cents utility at heart.
they may have been charging, but i havent given them a penny yet, and i still got cs2, and ive been having their products for years now, i probably owe them loads, for the "borrowed software",
as for pdf, i agree, its BLOATED.
why do all these big companies bloat their products so mutch, NAV a few years back was good, but loock at it now, just an example.
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|They're combining resources to entrench themselves as #1 in the specific markets. It makes a lot of sense. They need resources to compete against Microsoft. Plus, they have a lot of overlap; PS-Ill/Fireworks, flashpaper/acrobat, GoLive/Dreamweaver... consolidating best parts of these products will make them better.
I just think Bruce Chizen is an idiot for waiting until MACR hit 42, when he could have acquired them at 14 or so, just a few months before.
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|i like bowwow
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|oh that's total bs. adobe/macromedia will be a total unrivaled juggernaut.
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|Riiiight....
For about a week after MS releases Metro and Sparkle.....
I understand why Macromedia wants a 'partner'. The MS release could make them a bit nervous.
Why Adobe is doing it is beyond me. They have so much else going for them...they could drop PDF in a heartbeat and not miss a step.
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|You're not giving Macromedia enough credit, Phoenix. Programs like Macromedia Flash, and somewhat Dreamweaver, have made the Internet what it is today.
I never liked Adobe much, so, obviously, I'm not to thrilled with this planned merge. But, what can ya do?
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|As long as they leave the macromedia format alone, I don't care who owns it. (Unless FW starts costing PS prices)
Photoshop is great for certain things, Fireworks is great for primarily web images/page devel, and Dreamweaver has no equal.
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|Drop PDF? HAHAHAHA, you obviously don't work in the print industry where PDF is the ONLY format. PDF is not just for web documents dude.
As for Adobe, they have only proved that if you cannot compete, buy them. Must have learned that from Microsoft.
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