Adam Fields (weblog)

This blog is largely deprecated, but is being preserved here for historical interest. Check out my index page at adamfields.com for more up to date info. My main trade is technology strategy, process/project management, and performance optimization consulting, with a focus on enterprise and open source CMS and related technologies. More information. I write periodic long pieces here, shorter stuff goes on twitter or app.net.

4/18/2005

Adobe is buying Macromedia

Filed under: — adam @ 8:55 am

This is a very interesting merger, and it totally makes sense.

1. Adobe gets Dreamweaver, which is way more advanced than Go Live, in my limited experience.

2. Adobe gets Fireworks to integrate into ImageReady. I’ve never really used Fireworks, but I’m told that it makes common web graphics a lot easier.

3. Adobe now controls PDF >and< Flash.

And, possibly most importantly:

4. Adobe has been doing a lot of dynamic PDF generation with J2EE. Macromedia has Coldlfusion/JRun. I think, but I’m not sure, that I smell a really kickass CMS brewing here that integrates directly with Adobe’s image server. Moreover, it may be what I’ve been waiting for from Adobe for years – print and web output from the same system, and a web-based interactive system for editing content for print publications based on InDesign (or similar) templates.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/04/18/adobe.to.buy.macromedia/

IBM has been working on techniques for combining PDF and XML documents via J2EE:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0410_vora/0410_vora.html?ca=dgr-jw22Adobe-ID

I’ve put together a possible pretty simple flow diagram for #4:

http://www.visiognomy.com/diagrams/archives/2005/04/18/adobe-is-buying-macromedia/


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