Adobe to buy Macromedia

[TheDesigners]

Well, what ever potential Macromedia products had just went down the drain. Adobe bought out GoLive and ruined it - now say good buy to Flash and Dreamweaver...

ASP.net here I come!!!

[bootNumlock]

yeah, we have put a lot into this today as well..... we are hoping it is like the apple/power tower thing form the late nineties.... adobe will roll the best parts of macromedia's product line like apple did with power computing...

we have invested a lot in flash technology and we feel that macromedia has a lot over the svg platform, so we hope that this won't bite us in the butt....

we will just have to wait and see....

[generic]

I switched all my development from asp to php this year myself. Tired of issues with windows servers, access databases, etc. Best move I ever made.

I also moved away from complete flash sites and only use flash for enhancements to sites these days. If flash goes, I can always use swish for the same thing. (sometimes I do epically for text effects)

[nelsonke]

Guys, what pessimism!! If Adobe manages to kill flash they will have committed one of the bigger business blunders in the last 25 years ( not that there are not some monumental examples ). I would think that Flash was the primary reason they went after Macromedia.

[kapuwa]

so tracewebspace, its not only you - i used to develop on windows platform with asp for about 3-4 years and gave up on it once i realize the power of PHP + apache - eversince then, i no more develop anything with ASP

[mresell]

I have big concerns, but it is done. I personally like fw and dw together. It's just annoying when you invest so much in their products, money and otherwise and this kinda stuff happens. Seems like all the software companies are getting worse about it. I would not be surprised to see prices go up tho. We'll see. I tend to think competition works better than huge dominate players. It is done tho.