> I think they'll keep Dreamweaver - that has far too big an > established > market.
Definitely. I don't know anyone who uses GoLive, but I know an awful lot of people who use DW. I've been using it professionally since version 1. > As much as I like Fireworks, I fear that it'll be replaced > with ImageReady (which I do not like). > > The reason I like Fireworks is because of its brilliant > integration of > raster and vector graphics, and because it's easy for me to slice > images for web use You took the words right out of my mouth. I really dislike ImageReady, although it's better than it used to be. I've used them both for graphics production and slicing, but I find Fireworks to be a lot more intuitive to use than ImageReady. Since DW and Fireworks are already part of the same suite and DW has greater market share, it would be great to see Fireworks survive and ImageReady either die or be completely integrated into PS. I know there are a lot of Freehand developers out there who are pretty worried right now as well. Some are speculating that Freehand will be sold to another company (and perhaps Fireworks will be as well). > Someone else commented (on Slashdot, I think) that it gives > Adobe a lot > of power over Apple. Imagine if Photoshop and Dreamweaver > were pulled > from MacOS and made Windows-only. But why would they do that? They'd just be limiting their own market share. > Anyway it will be interesting to see what the SEC says. Do you think > there will still be enough competition in the marketplace? Hard to say. I know MM and Adobe are competitors, but I've always thought of them as being really good at different things, so in a way, this merger makes perfect sense. But I'm still not happy about it... Amita
