http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/18/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes

"Computer document company Adobe Systems Inc. said Monday it agreed to buy multimedia software firm Macromedia Inc. for about $3.4 billion in stock, in a move designed to extend its lead in the market for creating and distributing digital documents."


:eek4: this is huge news.

 

yeah, my brother told me about it. he's not too excited. i'm amazed that it went for $3.4 billion.. too much f'in money out there nowadays. :eek3:

 

No shiet, now Adobe will hold the top Art & Multimedia softwares today? I remembered that back in the day, Premier used to compete with Authorware. :sad: $$$

 

does this mean extended load times for shockwave and falsh players now? :angry:

 

heh.. exactly what i was thinking..

 

yes but now you can take appart flash animation layer by layer and then save it all as a worthless pdf file.

 

I saw this one coming a couple years back...surprised it took them so long to finally make the deal.

 

Makes me sad, but I saw it coming. Most that use Flash use Photoshop so it seems only logical. I'm just worried that the quality of the MM products will not be the same now that Adobe will be producing them. It's definitely going to be a 'wait and see' situation.

 

PDF is honestly the dumbest thing i've ever seen, why would anyone use it is beyond me...

 

It's more of a universal document than those that are proprietary like word perfect, word, and the mac programs. It makes sense to me... :dunno: