Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B 937
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."
Variables don't; constants aren't.
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)
- 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.
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)
I take you haven't seen Minority Report yet?
Animated PDFs? (Score:5, Funny)
Adobe PDF + Macromedia Flash = Annimated PDFs
Somehow I think Bill Gates is behind all this
Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)
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.
New name sucks (Score:5, Funny)
Who else is holding out for Macrodobia?
Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:2, Funny)
Dreamweaver (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Better name.. (Score:2, Funny)
hmm interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
somebody needs to invest in some hobby boxes...
Re:Animated PDFs? (Score:3, Funny)
How else can they convince everyone they need 4GHz CPUs?
Re:I'm scared. :( (Score:5, Funny)
The only word I can think of to describe it is 'ACK!'
SYN!
Re:IlluHand? (Score:5, Funny)
Freehand + Illustrator = Frustrator
Re:Freehand (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)
<flame>
It's called "vi".
</flame>
Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)
You spelled "emacs" as "vi".
</flame>
Re:PDF Good, Flash Bad (Score:2, Funny)
Macrobat plugin? (Score:1, Funny)
The Axis (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:New name sucks (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)
(Yes, its a MS-DOS joke on slashdot. Consider it meta-humour)
Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)
<flame>
It's true, emacs is a *great* environment. It just lacks a good text editor.
</flame>
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
It's time to uninstall... (Score:1, Funny)
Flash tracks users better than cookies.
Both were being used to push 3rd party products.
I'll stick with RTF and TXT.
ugh... (Score:3, Funny)
WTF? (Score:3, Funny)