Tag Archive: Macromedia

Macromedia Shwag

Macromedia Shwag: I haven’t been icluded on this because I have never attended a Macromedia event like Max or TodCon or any other but, since I’ve par­tic­i­pated in sev­eral betas in the last few years I have received a few Macromedia items: 2 car visor CD hold­ers 1 small travel alarm clock with the Macromedia logo on it 1 great looking…

Adobe, Macromedia & Fireworks

There has been a lot of dis­cus­sion in blogs and news­groups fol­low­ing the recent clos­ing of the trans­ac­tion for the acqui­si­tion of Macromedia by Adobe. I have been read­ing a lot about it in the last few days, offi­cial words and com­men­tary alike and there’s one thing that’s really been bug­ging me in many of the coments I’ve seen. There’s a lot of peo­ple who…

MXDJ on Adobe vs Macromedia

The April 2005 ver­sion of the MX Developer’s Journal (www​.mxdj​.com) was released yes­ter­day and I just had a peek through it. About the entire first half of the issue was devoted to the recently announced acqui­si­tion of Macromedia by Adobe and I have two prob­lems with that. First. Until the acqui­si­tion is offi­cial and approved by all con­cerned parties,…

More On Adobe vs Macromedia…

I’ve been read­ing quite a bit about the recently announced Adobe acqu­si­tion of Macromedia and, beyond all the spec­u­la­tion about the future of spe­cific prod­ucts, the one thing that’s start­ing to hit me hard is the dis­a­pear­ance of the Macromedia brand. Many peo­ple speak of this as a merger but it is not a merger, it’s an acquisition…

The Day After

I’m post­ing this both as a test as I’m try­ing to resolve some prob­lems with my blog­ging soft­ware but also to post a link to a good sum­mary of reac­tions and offi­cial state­ments about the pend­ing Adobe-​Macromedia merger announced yes­ter­day. Jason Kottke has posted this sum­mary and I wanted to link it here so that I can come back to…