Re: Adobe/.Macromedia: Demand a Roadmap

Two interesting observations... Of course, please add if you know of
anything else....

1) Aldus merged with Adobe back in the early nineties... Aldus had to two
key products: Freehand and Pagemaker... For the deal to go through, it was
deemed that Freehand would have to be sold. So, Macromedia bought it.

http://www.seyboldreports.com/SRDP/0dp9/D0901013.HTM
<http://www.seyboldreports.com/SRDP/0dp9/D0901013.HTM>

In today¹s economy, I¹m betting that they won't have this issue of
innovation due to competing products from Corel and Microsoft, etc... Of
course, I feel that both Adobe and Macromedia have pushed innovation in a
healthy/positive way in the last few years. Minus the ³feature-creep², they
both have helped interface development. Let¹s keep our fingers crossed that
this keeps going in the right direction....

2) I¹ve never seen this, but I found it interesting.

Check out the following link:
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html
<http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html>

Look at the disclaimer under ³Forward Looking Statements²...

Is this only for pending merger disclaimers or the overly cautious?



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