| Kevin Towes (New Toronto Group) 2005-04-18, 7:45 am |
| Well coming from the Allaire world (ColdFusion/JRUN) - When Macromedia
bought Allaire, I was excited. Tools were missing from the Allaire world,
and in Macromedia, Servers were a tried and failed process. Now look what
we've got: Flex / Breeze / FlashCom. 3 extremely powerful and marketable
products that are the driving force behind Macromedia these days.
I'm excited (personally) about the Adobe deal - and it makes a lot of sense.
Adobe's approach on digital documents, video and imaging are outstanding and
de-facto standard. They had a lot of trouble building servers and didn't
have an official platform for delivering the video that their tools play an
enormous role in. Their acrobat platform is universal, but very clumbsy. I
am interested how Flex / ColdFusion and Flash paper will fix that.
It will be curious to see what happens with the overlapping products
(Fireworks/Freehand/FlashPaper)... but I am sure we'll hear about it.
I am most excited about the whole video platform that Adobe brings to the
table. Tools that we all use as part of our production process in Flash
Video are now just part of the family. It can only get better.
I can't wait until MAX in Florida and to hear Macromedia respond to this
later today. (Mike?)
Kev.
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Kevin Towes, Sr. Consultant
New Toronto Group, ktowes-OLKb+VbonXLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
Office: 905-306-2790 Mobile: 416-882-4445
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Certified Macromedia Developer and Trainer;
Macromedia FLEX 1.5 (new!)
Flash MX 2004, Flash Video; ColdFusion MX,
Flash Communication Server MX
-----Original Message-----
From: flashcomm-bounces-1Ss2GqJETD3yZ38Mhd3e/9ZfFG6BLHNm@public.gmane.org
[mailto:flashcomm-bounces-1Ss2GqJETD3yZ38Mhd3e/9ZfFG6BLHNm@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Edward J.
Apostol
Sent: April 18, 2005 8:13 AM
To: flashcomm-1Ss2GqJETD3yZ38Mhd3e/9ZfFG6BLHNm@public.gmane.org
Subject: SPAM-LOW: [FlashComm] Adobe acquires Macromedia
Bill Sanders said -
"but I got a feeling that this may spell curtains for FireWorks, FreeHand
and anything else that Adobe has that's head to head with a Macromedia
product and outsells it."
Not really related to Flashcom, but I do believe that Fireworks pioneered
the "slicing an image into tables" concept. I really liked that feature when
it first came out.
Cheers
Edward J. Apostol
Developer, instructor
Web Applications, Wireless and Rich Media
Toronto, ON Canada
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