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In a surprising move, Adobe Systems announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. Adobe is known for products such as Photoshop, Illustrator & Acrobat while Macromedia is known products such as Flash & Dreamweaver. The acquisition is expected to close in Fall 2005.

The acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe provide customers a more powerful set of integrated software solutions that enable them create, manage and deliver a wide range of compelling content and applications from documents and images to audio and video. This powerful combination also strengthens their mission to help people and organizations communicate better through the complementary industry-wide technologies of PDF and Flash. Together, the two companies will continue to innovate and expand into the mobile and enterprise markets.

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~ds28 Apr 26, 2005  Hobbyist Photographer
damn ! O_o
but i think its gonna be awesome when the progs come out !

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:iconnichols:
Seems a little strange to me. Hopefully this will be a succesful marriage; they are the 2 giants of design software..
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:icon5-7:
THANK GOD THIS FINALLY HAPPENED... hopefully adobe will fix the million bugs....

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~dobee Apr 25, 2005  Professional Interface Designer
sounds good to me :nod:
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:iconyunafx:
This is huge. Maybe I'll get into flash then. Adobe hasn't let me down yet. :)

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~vozzz Apr 24, 2005  Professional Filmographer
Hopefully Adobe will learn how to make their stuff load faster from Macromedia.

It could be a good thing, which it hopefully is, because Adobe has more funding, but then again if they turn macromedia into a go-live piece of crap, then we are all very stuffed. And they better keep the Flash itnerface. Because Adobes stuff just dosnt cut it.

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:iconttylbubbles1214:
<<confused...

not sure of that's good or bad :T
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:iconstestagg:
Does this mean that the resultant company will become a microsoft of the Graphics industry? if so, I won't be too happy.
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:iconcerhiby:
O.o wow, they're going to create a GIANT in graphic software applications. What will become of the world now? Gosh.
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:iconst-aidan:
SLAMMING!!! Maybe finally we don't have to go through freehand to do something in flash. Hope they put some good corel import filters...
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