Adobe To Acquire Macromedia In $3.4B Deal

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Adobe To Acquire Macromedia In $3.4B Deal


Adobe Systems, one of the world's largest providers of document design software, will acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion, the companies announced Monday.

Adobe's software includes the popular Acrobat and Photoshop program. San Francisco-based Macromedia makes the Dreamweaver and Flash web-design software.

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tom-thebox

wow, will be very interesting to see how this works out.

kjt

Wooo some nice $$ there, I hope adobe dont try and change flash or any of their programs much.

Cork Skate

I hopw they dont get happy with the price tags now that they control the whole graphic package market !! :eek:

seo-ireland

I hope they don't axe Fireworks.

Nasty_Girl

twould be hard to see how it would survive against photoshop

PauloMN

This was bound to happen, it makes perfect sense for both parties. Adobe now control pretty much all major content and graphics applications for both printed content and e-content. Clever move.

It will be interesting to see what product suites they start offering and how they start linking all of these products - InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, Illustrator, RoboHelp etc.. 'Tis an impressive list of applications it has to be said.

Better refresh my XML skills....

aidan_walsh

I think this is a pretty accurate outlook as to what will happen. I'd agree with it.

Rollo Tamasi

well at least all us web and media developers will be able to work form the same colour palette in the future. Its a complete nightmare when colours clash from flash to photoshop. Its a good move for that sole purpose. But its going to destroy competion.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

But its going to destroy competion.

Yeah, unless the open-source community come up with something usefull ... but I won't hold my breath. :cool:

aidan_walsh

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

But its going to destroy competion.

In what way? The products that Adobe are likely to drop were never really mainstream products in the same way that Adobe's own were, so all they'll be possibly losing are a few niche users who refuse to change over. The survivng Macromedia products (read Flash) were also amongst the leaders in their field and not in direct competition with Adobe counterparts, and don't really stand to gain anything more market-wise from this merger.

mewso

Yes but will Homesite survive?