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One Big Company
I'm off for Marathon Patriot's Day, I just had to comment on today's big news. Adobe has purchased Macromedia. I was so shocked when I heard that on NPR this morning.
I don't really use Macromedia products any more. I haven't touched Dreamweaver in over year, since I decided that templating should be built into the code,not controlled by a designer's application. I used to love Flash, but we weren't getting a lot of work in that area, so I moved away from it.
I use Adobe Photoshop quite a bit and Illustrator occasionally. But even there, I feel no need to upgrade, what I've got works fine. I have to use Acrobat, but use it as little as possible because it is an ugly bloated beast of an application.
So the merger doesn't impact me immediately. But it does effect the industry - I think there was something to gain from the competition between these cpmpanies. Neither seems to have innovated much in the past few years, so maybe their competition had run it's course. Still, it's wierd to have one superpower in multimedia creation software.