abinidi Posted April 18, 2005 Posted April 18, 2005 Links on Adobe.com and Macromedia.com both point to the following location: smilie http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelatio...macromedia.html Do you think the FTC will allow the merger? Adobe will have like a 90% market share (or higher) in the graphics and illustration market. What do you think this means for the various product lines involved?? Do you think Adobe will keep Freehand and Fireworks? Or will they integrate them into Illustrator and Photoshop? Adobe Dreamweaver? I never thought that the day would come... Quote
Mitch Posted April 18, 2005 Posted April 18, 2005 Hopefully this will lead to a few more open source solutions getting a bigger share of the market. The more dominate a company becomes in one area, the more likely people are going to start looking to other solutions. Just look at Internet Explorer and Firefox. Quote
abinidi Posted April 18, 2005 Author Posted April 18, 2005 Wouldn't that be great! I would love an opensource alternative to Photoshop and Dreamweaver!! Quote
stevevan Posted April 18, 2005 Posted April 18, 2005 Me too! I can't see spending $400 on a piece of software. (However, I'd gladly spend it on amateur radio equipment...go figure!) Quote
Deverill Posted April 18, 2005 Posted April 18, 2005 I don't know ... just look at all the vastly available open source alternatives to Microsoft Windows... We have Linux but it's not accepted into the mainstream consumer world and I'm afraid that this merger give us the same in the graphics world - "use us or suffer." If I made a program like that *I* wouldn't try to compete with "AdobeMedia". Quote
borfast Posted April 18, 2005 Posted April 18, 2005 Wouldn't that be great! I would love an opensource alternative to Photoshop and Dreamweaver!! The GimpNvu If you like speculations, Slashdot has an article about this with the usual load of comments, flame wars, conspiracy theories, etc Quote
TCH-Don Posted April 18, 2005 Posted April 18, 2005 PaintShop Pro is fast becoming a good alternative to Photoshop. Quote
abinidi Posted April 21, 2005 Author Posted April 21, 2005 Wouldn't that be great! I would love an opensource alternative to Photoshop and Dreamweaver!! The GimpNvu <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You are my new hero, Raul! I had heard of Nvu, but was under the impression it was only available if you were running Linux. The Gimp was recommended to me two days ago by somebody else, and I like it too.... Yay for opensource!! Quote
kahill Posted April 30, 2005 Posted April 30, 2005 (edited) Yep TCH-Don, I've used PSP since v2 instead of Photoshop. It has come a LONG LONG way. Just recently upgraded to PSP9. Way back when, the PSP price was right and I didn't have to buy a MAC. As for mergers and aquisitions........if you can't beat 'em, BUY 'em. Kind of sad to lose the Macromedia family though. It does make me curious to see if Adobe will impose their software restrictions on the Macromedia products instead of adopting the open source approach. It could go either way... Edited April 30, 2005 by kahill Quote
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