Jared Rypka-Hauer, Lead ColdFusion Developer, Minneapolis, MN
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This is insane... then again, panic is probably natural under the circumstances. Doomsday portends. In fact, after a beautiful clear day in Minnesota it just started to thunder. For real... my head is spinning...
Granted, the Allaire merger caused a lot of chaos too...
But I can't help feeling like we had some strength going into the release of CFMX 7... we had Macromedia, a strong, evolving company. Born of web technologies and focused on web technologies... we were able to approach our customers with an ideal. We were able to say "Look at how Macromedia has supported us, enabled us, and listened to us."
Adobe, on the other hand, has always represented the lesser of two evils... just below Microsoft in the waste-of-space-and-working-capital category. PDF is a bloated and brainless product. Their origins are in olde-worlde font technology, and their web presence has always sucked some serious donkey-behind. And now they're... involved.
"Powered by Adobe ColdFusion" just sounds yucky.
"Team Macromedia" has an awesome ring to it... "Team Adobe" just sounds like a dozen construction workers up to their knees in the mud.
If they touch Fireworks (which you can bet they will, now's their chance to try pushing Photoshop back to it's place as King of Piggish Software), I'm gonna be pisssed as hell. And that's the first time I've sworn on this blog. But it's true. Damn... this just feels freaky. I'm soooooooo not a happy camper.
But what choice do we have...
laterz.
Granted, the Allaire merger caused a lot of chaos too...
But I can't help feeling like we had some strength going into the release of CFMX 7... we had Macromedia, a strong, evolving company. Born of web technologies and focused on web technologies... we were able to approach our customers with an ideal. We were able to say "Look at how Macromedia has supported us, enabled us, and listened to us."
Adobe, on the other hand, has always represented the lesser of two evils... just below Microsoft in the waste-of-space-and-working-capital category. PDF is a bloated and brainless product. Their origins are in olde-worlde font technology, and their web presence has always sucked some serious donkey-behind. And now they're... involved.
"Powered by Adobe ColdFusion" just sounds yucky.
"Team Macromedia" has an awesome ring to it... "Team Adobe" just sounds like a dozen construction workers up to their knees in the mud.
If they touch Fireworks (which you can bet they will, now's their chance to try pushing Photoshop back to it's place as King of Piggish Software), I'm gonna be pisssed as hell. And that's the first time I've sworn on this blog. But it's true. Damn... this just feels freaky. I'm soooooooo not a happy camper.
But what choice do we have...
laterz.
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ME too.
I'm not a CF dev (asp is me), BUT I am an avid Fireworks user. I'm just so gob smacked!
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I'm not a CF dev (asp is me), BUT I am an avid Fireworks user. I'm just so gob smacked!
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Adobe pays threefold their annual revenue to purchase Macromedia.
The famous pdf and flash player will strengthen the capability of
delivering cutting edge experience in video, graphic and design.
Macrob will not entering the biz of web-portals and browser manufacturers.
Accordingly, the Yahoo Toolbar will not disappear in the download section.
As a leader in web&print production, their designer and developer community
is more valuable than anything else. They gain the power to control
browser, operating system and telecommunication vendors.
What will change in the near future?
The success of Macromedia Studio MX will continue and Flash, Coldfusion along with
the Dreamweaver will be a solid component of the product family. Adobe's GoLive
will have a short live. Vica versa Fireworks competes with Illustrator, but
Fireworks uses a different workflow process. Definitely in question is FreeHand.
What is the strategy of Macrob?
To enhance Rich Media Application with Flex and Flash, to penetrate the mobile market with the Flash IDE, delivering streaming and synchronous video (Flash Communication Server, Breeze), have
a big toe in the Education market and all shaked up with coldfusion. Entering the entreprise Market. In short, that was the visionary strategy of Macromedia, since today. Don't ask me what tomorrow morning brings.
8ball ist the last ball you sink in a pool.
The famous pdf and flash player will strengthen the capability of
delivering cutting edge experience in video, graphic and design.
Macrob will not entering the biz of web-portals and browser manufacturers.
Accordingly, the Yahoo Toolbar will not disappear in the download section.
As a leader in web&print production, their designer and developer community
is more valuable than anything else. They gain the power to control
browser, operating system and telecommunication vendors.
What will change in the near future?
The success of Macromedia Studio MX will continue and Flash, Coldfusion along with
the Dreamweaver will be a solid component of the product family. Adobe's GoLive
will have a short live. Vica versa Fireworks competes with Illustrator, but
Fireworks uses a different workflow process. Definitely in question is FreeHand.
What is the strategy of Macrob?
To enhance Rich Media Application with Flex and Flash, to penetrate the mobile market with the Flash IDE, delivering streaming and synchronous video (Flash Communication Server, Breeze), have
a big toe in the Education market and all shaked up with coldfusion. Entering the entreprise Market. In short, that was the visionary strategy of Macromedia, since today. Don't ask me what tomorrow morning brings.
8ball ist the last ball you sink in a pool.
Macromedia "Born of web technologies and focused on web technologies... " I don' think so. Macromedia was born of CD-ROM technologies. Director, Shockwave, Lingo...
MM successfully evolved into a "web technology" company when the CD-ROM boom went bust.
MM successfully evolved into a "web technology" company when the CD-ROM boom went bust.
Don't go to the dark side Luke. Use the force.
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