[url]http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html[/url]

This is FUCKING HUGE. Adobe going in for the kill. This is going to be a god damn good thing imo.

Yao=sucka

Re: Macromedia bought my Adobe.

nice, agreed it should be a great thing.

[size=1]wrong forum though[/size] :mrgreen:

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Hehehe. The news is the other way. Abobe bought Macromedia.

I am a freehand user.

I am interested to see what their plan is in the future. Will they stop all the macromedia software development or will they continue with it. Which software will be killed and so on.

Hybrex

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i think he meant "by" instead of "my" :lol:

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Wow... this is huge!! I know what the macromedia employees are going through right now... considering PeopleSoft, the company I worked for, got bought by Oracle.

Honestly I don't know if the combination of these two companies is really a good thing. Of course Macromedia is going to post on their that the reason the two companies are combining is so they can present a better product but when it comes down to it, it's all about the stockholders and the biggest return on their investment!

Adobe and Macromedia were competitors and I hope the combination of the two doesn't stop the innovation each would strive for to be that much better then the other.

Anyhow, this almost seems to be an almost normal occuring thing in the corporate world... Lets hope we will really benefit from the combination of the two.

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my company was recently bought by GE. Today's the first day after 60% of my department was laid off... it's empty down here. crazy feeling having to go through all the stuff that your friends (coworkers) of 4 years have and put it away :?

Some of the people had even been here for 15 years

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[b]NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!![/b]

:cry:

Now, to irritate you, I am not going to switch, mwuhahahahahah!!

[cue end of Yao's graphic design carreer that hadn't even started]

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I don't remember writing the title like that but whatever. You can pretty much kiss freehand and fireworks goodbye. Flash is going to be awesome now.... better integration with aftereffects which will be huge for the big broadband showboat sites. This will definitely be big for adobe.

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You love to see me forced to switch progs, don't you...? Squirming and wriggling to avoid the unavoidable... :anal pro:

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this is HUGE. 8)

Yao's design career RIP.

j/k

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wow. this is huge.. i like adobe products better.... of course macromedia flash is the shit, and adobes livemotion couldn't compete with it... maybe they felt the web design world was pulling away from them ..hehehe either way its good!

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I don't know, this would be like nVidia buying ATi, the competition to one up each other is gone now. The need to innovate to keep your product in the forfront is gone...you see what I mean. We'll see...

But it is big news, none the less.

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this is not good for my paranoia :|

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how hasn't this been moved to [me] yet?

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In the future there will be just one technology company:

[b]MicrogoogledobeATIntelAMDnvidiasoft[/b] (Microsoft for short)

Shares start at $975

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[quote=picklemonkey]how hasn't this been moved to [me] yet?[/quote]

someone had done so but i moved it back. it's a huge news item that transcends [me]. also when it was on [me] one of the [me] mods thought it would be funny to rename the topic title.

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My experience with Adobe products leaves me somewhat confused. There?ss the good, the reasonable & the awful :

• The awful to me, is Acrobat...even though the PDF format is good in itself, I can?t see how it justifies the ammount of bloatedness of that program. Just compare it with the Free FoxIt Reader and you?ll see what I mean.

• The reasonable : Photoshop.

• The good : Adobe Audition - Adobe buying out Syntrillium and taking hold of Cool Edit Pro left some people fearing for the quality of the program, but to me, it is now the best Audio Editor out there, beating the likes of Wavelab and Soundforge, for a lot less money too. It could have gone so wrong, look what Sony did to Acid.

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[quote=picklemonkey]my company was recently bought by GE. Today's the first day after 60% of my department was laid off... it's empty down here. crazy feeling having to go through all the stuff that your friends (coworkers) of 4 years have and put it away :?

Some of the people had even been here for 15 years[/quote]

BTW, Pickle, what company was that? I work for GE in Portugal.

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[quote=Hos]it's a huge news item that transcends [me].[/quote] :roll:

[quote=Hos]also when it was on [me] one of the [me] mods thought it would be funny to rename the topic title.[/quote] :ROFLMAO: wasnt me. so it's suddenly not funny to rename topics now? at what point did it go from "changing someone's post is hip and fun" to "let's move this away from the proper forum so the mods can't change it?"

you guys crack me up. seriously

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[quote=Kinetic]BTW, Pickle, what company was that? I work for GE in Portugal.[/quote] hell yeah man! Energy. Hit me up on Sametime

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^^ Ok, I?ve added you.

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[quote=evangelion]I don't know, this would be like nVidia buying ATi, the competition to one up each other is gone now. The need to innovate to keep your product in the forfront is gone...you see what I mean. We'll see...[/quote]

Actually they still have a lot of competitors in the higher end visual effects, broadcast, and 3d markets. All of which they seem to have plans to delve into or have once tried before..... haha dimensions. Still lots of improvement/things to develop.

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[quote=picklemonkey]

you guys crack me up. seriously[/quote]

aim to please :wink:

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[quote=picklemonkey][quote=Hos]it's a huge news item that transcends [me].[/quote] :roll:

[quote=Hos]also when it was on [me] one of the [me] mods thought it would be funny to rename the topic title.[/quote] :ROFLMAO: wasnt me. so it's suddenly not funny to rename topics now? at what point did it go from "changing someone's post is hip and fun" to "let's move this away from the proper forum so the mods can't change it?"

you guys crack me up. seriously[/quote]

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Damn this is really big. Adobe just keeps getting bigger.

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Maybe we'll see some combo apps like Dreamshop Photoweaver or Flashastrator. :)