Macworld Editors’ Notes: The buyout blues
On the eve of Adobe’s announcement that it is buying out Macromedia for 3.4 billion, I’m feeling the same mixed sense of shock and the pangs of nostalgia as expressed by this MacWorld editorial…
I still have my original copies of Claris HomePage (which got me hooked on Web design way back when…), PageMill (Adobe’s answer to HomePage - remember the BBEdit plug-in “PageMill Cleaner” that had to fix the lousy markup generated by PageMill?), DreamWeaver 1.0 (it came bundled with BBEdit Lite so hand coders could straddle both realms of web design), and GoLive CyberStudio (which was bought out by Adobe to replace PageMill and challenge the surprising popularity of Dreamweaver). Looks like Adobe got tired of toying with Macromedia and decided to just eat it for lunch…