Adobe and Macromedia...

Had been really piled up with work, so was not able to post...

Anyways the reason I found this so funny was, there were people at Adobe, mind you really senior people who were with the company for 15-20 years who wouldn't see eye to eye with Macromedia. Most of this was centered around SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), lot of people did lot of work at Adobe and all of it got shelved because the management did not see any point in persuing it. Macromedia had a great install base and another SVG app would not be accepted in the market. (On a sidenot, all of postscript and PDF is mostly vector graphics, the fonts and the lines etc...) So this merger comes as a big surprise. Macromedia was supposed to be one of the few companies who would have given Adobe some competition. And I see macromedia as a very open company, quite unlike Adobe. How do things turn out, we'll have to wait and watch.

But I really think it would be a good merger, if the management doesnt kill macromedia. Adobe has a history of killing products it bought, Pagemaker, Framemaker etc... I hope they havent acquired MACR just to kill it. I see MACR as a company with a lot of josh. Hope Adobe dosent sap away all that...