"2004-04-18" A sad day, Macromedia was acquired.
Although I have already rumored M $ will acquire MM, it is still very sudden. Many people are not very optimistic about the prospect of MM acquisition! However, calm thinking that MM is actually very helpless, and the future RIA software accounts for a very important status, while Flex and Avalon can calculate 2 leadings in the server-side RIA application field, although Flex has been released for a while, but face M $ This consortium, the company is not enough, it is not enough (former M $ this similar thing, did a lot of things), Avalon paid this with WIN free, even if the sharp price reduction of Flex will not take the obvious The effect, but will reduce the company's income. And Adobe is the biggest winner this acquisition, Adobe wants Flash for a long time, before Adobe exits the animation software of LiveMotion, but in the face of the FLASH, there is no large living space, although the MM's product system has a repetitive part ( For example, Fireworks and Photoshop, ImageReady; Freehand and Illustrator; Dreamweaver and Golive) However, MM has a lot of uniqueness in these software (MM and Adobe's intellectual property disputes), Adobe can be from MM Get a lot of patented technology, and for a series of Series Server products that have been focused with the design area (ColdFusion, Flex, JRun, FlashCom, etc.), which can provide new high-profit sources for merged Adobe, and MM's series of multimedia Products can greatly enrich Adobe's status in the generalized "design" field (including multimedia design); Flash Paper will provide more new features for Acrobat, or in invisible to reduce PDF format monopoly Web print format
However, MM is acquired is undoubtedly a good news for designers, so Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver will combine more tight, especially for web designers; and for Flash, Flex, ColdFusion program developers MM is a design Software companies acquisition will undoubtedly worry about future prospects!
But what happened, no one changed, only pay attention to the future dynamics
