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Adobe completes Macromedia acquisition

Adobe have announced that their purchase of web graphics software publisher Macromedia has been finalized.

The combination of the two companies creates one of the World's largest software companies and certainly makes Adobe the biggest player in the graphics software industry.

The integration of Macromedia into the Adobe stable allows the graphics software company to build on its plans for interactive digital content, based on its own PDF technology and combined with Macromedia's Flash.

The integration of the two companies has already started and Adobe has announced three new design software bundles aimed to combine the tools of both their own Creative Suite 2 and Adobe video tools with Macromedia Flash Professional 8 and Macromedia Studio 8 software. Adobe plans to target a number of technologies ranging from mobile devices, through to servers.

For those designers that were worried that their favorite products might disappear, it seems that, for the moment, GoLive has received a reprieve. However, Macromedia's flagship vector drawing rival to Illustrator - Freehand - is nowhere to be found.

The new Adobe design product line

The Adobe Design Bundle, which combines Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium and Flash Professional 8 and includes the following;

Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe InDesign CS2
Adobe GoLive CS2
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional
Version Cue CS2
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Stock Photos
Macromedia Flash Professional 8

The Adobe Web Bundle which draws together Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium and Macromedia Studio 8, now looks like this;

Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe InDesign CS2
Adobe GoLive CS2
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional
Version Cue CS2
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Stock Photos
Dreamweaver 8
Flash Professional 8
Fireworks 8
Contribute 3
FlashPaper 2

The final product line will be the Adobe Video Bundle which includes various Adobe video products combined with Flash Professional 8 – full details to be announced. The Adobe Design Bundle and Adobe Web Bundle are available for purchase now and the Adobe Video Bundle ships in the first quarter of 2006.

Note: The Creative Suite Bundle has been updated since this article to Adobe CS3 and, more recently, to Adobe CS4.

6 December 2005 (updated 28 May 2006 and January 2009)

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