Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:00AM from the thats-a-whole-lotta-bread dept.

Kobayashi Maru writes "A press release from Adobe announces that they will buy Macromedia for approximately $3.4 billion. The new company will be called Adobe Systems, Inc."

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Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B

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Flash! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:01AM (#12268754)

Woho! Saviour of the Universe

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Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

by TheWanderingHermit ( 513872 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:02AM (#12268764)

Now we'll never see DreamWeaver on Linux.

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I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

by drunkennewfiemidget ( 712572 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:02AM (#12268766)

What does it mean when the two most instrusive web browser plugin makers merge?

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Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)

by mmaddox ( 155681 ) writes: <oopfoo@gm[ ].com ['ail' in gap]> on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:03AM (#12268784)

Well, if any of you are irritated by Flash, this move should reduce the number of folks using it. It'll be too bloated to load within a release or two.

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Acroweaver with new and improved Yahoo spybar!! (Score:1, Funny)

by blankoboy ( 719577 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:03AM (#12268796)

Bring on the horrors...sigh.

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Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

by selectspec ( 74651 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:03AM (#12268797)

What else is Wine for? The whole point of Wine was to run Dreamweaver on Linux.

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Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

by Walkiry ( 698192 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:04AM (#12268800) Homepage

That we can ignore them both with a single block when they merge? :)

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Freehand (Score:2, Funny)

by Cmdr TECO ( 579177 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:04AM (#12268811)

Who gets Freehand this time?

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Microso..I mean..Adobe acquires Macromedia (Score:5, Funny)

by Cjays ( 866936 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:07AM (#12268855)

This will probably mean:

- Adobe will kill off Freehand, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks, and incorporate any good features from them into Illustrator, GoLive, and ImageReady, respectively.
- Photoshop and Flash will remain the same, since neither had competition from the other company.
- They'll probably maintain 'lite' versions of all of the above, giving consumers the illusion of choice.
- Corel will acquire the company that makes Preparation H, since their asses will hurt so much from shitting a few tons of bricks.

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Good Thing They Aren't Calling The New Company (Score:3, Funny)

by dduardo ( 592868 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:07AM (#12268858)

Adobedriva.

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Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

by pseudolus ( 790109 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:09AM (#12268883)

It means that this guy [homestarrunner.com] will finally be able to send PDF attachments.

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Re:Adobe Flash .. ? (Score:5, Funny)

by neil.pearce ( 53830 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:10AM (#12268895) Homepage

They could do it as a flick book

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Re:Adobe Flash .. ? (Score:3, Funny)

by Walkiry ( 698192 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:10AM (#12268898) Homepage

>How would 'movie' files be translated to paper?

I take you haven't seen Minority Report yet? ;-)

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Animated PDFs? (Score:5, Funny)

by amichalo ( 132545 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:12AM (#12268924)

The calculation I keep running over in my mind is:

Adobe PDF + Macromedia Flash = Annimated PDFs

Somehow I think Bill Gates is behind all this

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Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:16AM (#12268970)

I do. Adobe Reader is the crappiest piece of shit there is. Slows, segfaults, VERY SLOW TO STARTUP.

Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE? Would you like to UPGRADE?

Bleh.

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New name sucks (Score:5, Funny)

by Linker3000 ( 626634 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:17AM (#12268980) Journal

"...The new company will be called Adobe Systems, Inc."

Who else is holding out for Macrodobia?

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Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:2, Funny)

by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 ( 812236 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:17AM (#12268992) Journal

Your PDFs will have Flash ads.

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Dreamweaver (Score:2, Funny)

by netrage_is_bad ( 734782 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:21AM (#12269039)

I don't care about fireworks, flash, whatever. BUT if they kill off Dreamweaver, I will have a major vendetta with Adobe!

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Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

by famebait ( 450028 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:23AM (#12269059)

What does it mean when the two most instrusive web browser plugin makers merge?

Probably that the next version of the flash plugin will take 15 minutes to fire up, just like everything else from Adobe, and that during that time your system will be too bogged down to respond to "back" or "close" or anyting else, so you'll finally have time to read all those paper publications again.

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Better name.. (Score:2, Funny)

by Odonian ( 730378 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:25AM (#12269083)

They should call it Macadamia! Just a nutty suggestion..

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hmm interesting... (Score:5, Funny)

by nighty5 ( 615965 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:29AM (#12269124)

$3.4B and can't survive a slashdotting?

somebody needs to invest in some hobby boxes...

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Re:Animated PDFs? (Score:3, Funny)

by larien ( 5608 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:29AM (#12269125) Homepage Journal

Hell no, must be Intel.
How else can they convince everyone they need 4GHz CPUs?

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Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

by GreyWolf3000 ( 468618 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:31AM (#12269139) Journal

The only word I can think of to describe it is 'ACK!'

SYN!

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Re:IlluHand? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:34AM (#12269173)

I think what you were looking for is

Freehand + Illustrator = Frustrator

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Re:Freehand (Score:3, Funny)

by justforaday ( 560408 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:35AM (#12269181)

It probably means they'll sell Freehand off to Corel. This naturally means that in another 5-10 years Adobe will end up purchasing Corel. : p

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Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

by Transcendent ( 204992 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:35AM (#12269189)

Now we'll never see DreamWeaver on Linux.

<flame>

It's called "vi". ;)

</flame>

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Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

by sepluv ( 641107 ) writes: <<moc.liamg> <ta> <yelsekalb>> on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:39AM (#12269237)

<flame>

You spelled "emacs" as "vi".

</flame>

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Re:PDF Good, Flash Bad (Score:2, Funny)

by muellerr1 ( 868578 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @10:42AM (#12269268) Homepage

In my day, we didn't have html pages with all their fancy newfangled tables and images. We could only read plain, unformatted text and click on hyperlinks, and we liked it!

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Macrobat plugin? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @11:05AM (#12269539)

Hey maybe we can hope for a QuickTime and Real Audio merger too.

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The Axis (Score:5, Funny)

by RedLaggedTeut ( 216304 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @11:06AM (#12269546) Homepage Journal

I've seen dreamweaver using CSS, and it usually goes "style1, style2,.." etc. and not a single style re-used.

This is hardly better than using the FONT tag. You'd have to set the style manually to make it work as intended. I guess you can do that in Dreamweaver too, but most Dreamweaver "experts" don't seem to care.

Maybe my attitude towards Dreamweaver and Photoshop would be best described by the ad slogan: "The right tools to get the job done even if you have no clue".

There is irony in that line, but I guess most people whose identity is defined by being an Photoshop/Dreamweaver expert will probably miss it.

I'm sorry, I should have shut up, but I think Adobe and Dreamweaver make a good match.

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Re:New name sucks (Score:3, Funny)

by TeknoHog ( 164938 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @11:17AM (#12269684) Homepage Journal

Freehand + Illustrator = Frustrator

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Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

by Ubergrendle ( 531719 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @11:26AM (#12269761) Journal

Amateurs... its called "edlin".

(Yes, its a MS-DOS joke on slashdot. Consider it meta-humour)

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Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

by aduzik ( 705453 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @11:30AM (#12269800) Homepage

<flame>

It's true, emacs is a *great* environment. It just lacks a good text editor.

</flame>

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Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @11:30AM (#12269815)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

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It's time to uninstall... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @12:16PM (#12270402)

Acrobat is beyond bloatware.
Flash tracks users better than cookies.
Both were being used to push 3rd party products.

I'll stick with RTF and TXT.

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ugh... (Score:3, Funny)

by shyfabian ( 250097 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @03:06PM (#12272493)

Is this what all those 'futurists' were talking about when they said there'd be a 'digital convergence'?

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WTF? (Score:3, Funny)

by plj ( 673710 ) writes: on Monday April 18, 2005 @03:21PM (#12272676)

Have you people truly not heard about ed?

bash:~ $ man ed

ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files.

I mean, what else could you possibly need?

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Flash! (Score:5, Funny)

Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)

Acroweaver with new and improved Yahoo spybar!! (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

Freehand (Score:2, Funny)

Microso..I mean..Adobe acquires Macromedia (Score:5, Funny)

Good Thing They Aren't Calling The New Company (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Adobe Flash .. ? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Adobe Flash .. ? (Score:3, Funny)

Animated PDFs? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

New name sucks (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:2, Funny)

Dreamweaver (Score:2, Funny)

Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

Better name.. (Score:2, Funny)

hmm interesting... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Animated PDFs? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)

Re:IlluHand? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Freehand (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:PDF Good, Flash Bad (Score:2, Funny)

Macrobat plugin? (Score:1, Funny)

The Axis (Score:5, Funny)

Re:New name sucks (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

It's time to uninstall... (Score:1, Funny)

ugh... (Score:3, Funny)

WTF? (Score:3, Funny)

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