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Posted: April 18, 2005 @ 08:26 PM EST | Filed Under: News, Software

Me, oh my, what will come of this:

Adobe bought Macromedia.

Adobe just about swept up the entire web design world with this move. Not only do they make and distribute Photoshop, a must have for anyone trying to hack it in this business, they just snatched up Dreamweaver and Flash. There are only two possible scenarios I see coming from this:

  1. Adobe sits on it and does nothing with the products they just acquired, subsequently stagnating the market
  2. Adobe takes this chance and runs with it, and the industry prospers

I’m worried that the first is going to come true. There hasn’t really been anything spectacular coming out of the Adobe camp in a while; just mediocre updates to already existant software.

Time will tell, I just hope Adobe doesn’t throw this industry back into a dark age when we’re just starting to see some light.