What the? The optimist in my says, Great! We’ll get new software that has the best that each of the software giants have to offer. The pessimist / realist in my says this is the end of competition and innovation (Microsoft, anyone?).
Those are my first impressions anyway, but I really have no idea what will happen. Keep Dreamweaver and scrap GoLive, please.
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0 on Windows XP
Today someone was telling me that they were having problems downloading macromedia’s flash player. Think that it might have something to do with the merger?
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 on Windows XP
Yeah, i have mixed feelings about this as well. At least it wasn’t Microsoft buying one of the 2 companies…
Using Safari 312 on Mac OS
Ches, I don’t think so–that’s probably just a server hiccup.
Daniel, good point. Adobe has to be smart about the way they proceed with their product now that they have Macromedia. HP eating up Compaq hasn’t been great for HP, and arguably, consumers as well.
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0 on Ubuntu Linux
Here’s an interesting/entertaining take on the issue:
http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translation