Adobe to buy Macromedia

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:19 am

wtf

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrela ... media.html

Post by **Eraser** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:30 am

We'll finally get flash movies that don't eat CPU cycles like candy but take about 3 days to load.

Post by **Doombrain** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:35 am

crushed

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:56 am

flash becomes part of acrobat, yay

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:24 pm

that is quite the news

Post by **brisk** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:44 pm

Adobe is pretty much untouchable now. Personally, I always hated the marcomedia interface/gui anyway, but competition was always a good thing...

Post by **PhoeniX** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:38 pm

Fireworks is practically a clone of Imageready anyway

.

/waits for Adobe PhotoFlash

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:34 pm

Link is down, I bet this stirred up something in design nerd world.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:35 pm

Another mega-merger, great news.

Why don't Dell, Compaq, IBM and Apple all combine for "more efficient solutions" and "added value to customers," it would be a terrific idea.

Post by **Doombrain** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:36 pm

ToxicBug wrote:Link is down, I bet this stirred up something in design nerd world.

It's not down. it's just your shitty conn

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:36 pm

PhoeniX wrote:Fireworks is practically a clone of Imageready anyway .

/waits for Adobe PhotoFlash

adobe had a flash clone back in the days when Flash 3 was new.
it sucked sooo bad.
dont think they ever continued that line though. hope not

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:37 pm

oh maybe Flash will finally get some elementary filters now.
thatd be cool

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:40 pm

Doombrain wrote:
ToxicBug wrote:Link is down, I bet this stirred up something in design nerd world.
It's not down. it's just your shitty conn

Clear your cache. Adobe.com is being hammered.

Post by **bitWISE** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:42 pm

Eraser wrote:We'll finally get flash movies that don't eat CPU cycles like candy but take about 3 days to load.

What would be nice is if Adobe used Macromedia's browser interface to make acrobat have better browser support. I never trust loading that fucking thing up in a browser.

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:44 pm

oh, they just posted it on Slashdot. that's why.

Post by **Doombrain** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:44 pm

Grudge wrote:
Doombrain wrote:
ToxicBug wrote:Link is down, I bet this stirred up something in design nerd world.
It's not down. it's just your shitty conn
Clear your cache. Adobe.com is being hammered.

it seems OK here.

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:44 pm

it's back up now

Post by **Doombrain** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:50 pm

this is great fun

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:55 pm

more info at macromedia's site

http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/pr ... media.html

Post by **Doombrain** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:05 pm

some good stuff is on it's way. funny how rep never told us this would happen...

Post by **stocktroll** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:07 pm

on a related note, wth does my adobe acrobat take like a million years to load on my super fast PC?

Post by **Doombrain** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:08 pm

you need to update to 7.01

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:17 pm

Doombrain wrote:some good stuff is on it's way. funny how rep never told us this would happen...

thats cause rep is a moron first class

Post by **sirstrongbad** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:01 pm

very interesting, indeed.

Post by **Canis** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:22 pm

I'd like apple to buy Adobe, and then we're talking good times!!!