Well, I am probably the billionth blogger to mention the $3.4bn buyout of macromedia by adobe, as well as being a day late to blog it…
This has it's advantages though, it means I am able to reflect on many peoples views about the whole thing.
Most people online seem to think it is reasonably stragegic and designed to boost profits rather than services. Many see the death of freehand, fireworks and golive…killed by illustrator, photoshop and dreamweaver. One view which I almost side with is that these are simply two dinosours joining forces to battle another dinosour (m$), as there is little room for the patented software-in-a-box business model in a socially constructed internet with Online apps such as picasa and flickr free for anyone to use.
Anyway, there is a really good (much better than mine) round up on a-list blogger [strike” alt=”">Leo[/strike” alt=”"> Jason Kottke's site. Might be worth a look if u r into the graphical tools world.
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