Jason the link master has a great summery of the Adobe Macromedia acquisition roundup
Whenever I hit a link and a PDF file pops-up I cringe and sit helplessly as the Adobe Acrobat reader (I’m the reader remember) ever so slowly unfolds. I don’t use any other Adobe products, I've tried Photoshop, but it is so much more then I need.
Flash is for the kids, its fun for games and stuff, but has Macromedia made any money from Flash? Dreamweaver is a product I've never used, but you don’t hear much about it these days.
Has there been any innovation from Adobe or Macromedia since the dotcom bust? Will there be inspiration for innovation from this merger/acquisition? Let’s hope so, but I don’t think so.
I think both companies were on the road to obsolescence and this is a scheme to cash-out by the head executives. There is no way Macromedia is worth 3.4 BILLION DOLLARS, no way, I would like to see a list of all the shares of Macromedia sold over the last six months, in every corner of this planet.