Adobe acquires Macromedia, announces Adobe Design Bundle

According to The Mac Observer, Adobe acquired Macromedia on 3rd December 2005, and announces new application bundles with Macromedia products.

The Adobe Design Bundle includes Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium with Flash Professional 8. The CS2 Premium applications include Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, GoLive CS2, Acrobat 7 Professional, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos.

The Adobe Web Bundle includes Adobe Creative Suite 2 and Macromedia Studio 8. Studio 8 includes Dreamweaver 8, Flash Professional 8, Fireworks 8, Contribute 3, and FlashPaper 2, which gives users essentially all of the mainstream Web development tools in one package. It is interesting to note that former competing Web design products, GoLive and Dreamweaver, together in the same box.


Posted by Antony at December 6, 2005 11:29 PM
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