#macromedia

"It's been almost 15 years since I created HomeSite, and I stopped working on it in 1998 when I left Allaire Corporation. Several other developers took over after I left, but to the best of my knowledge nobody has touched it for several years, so the fact that it was still being sold until now is a nice testament to how useful people found it. Kudos to Macromedia and Adobe for keeping it around, despite the fact that it competed with some of their other products."

"I've been working on an Amazon S3 client in Apollo, and I finally got around to extracting the S3 library and making it its own project. I put it up on Google Code under the name as3awss3lib."

"Part of the announcement was that the upcoming beta of Apollo will also include SQLite to allow developers access to an embedded database for their applications."

"With Apollo, you can leverage existing web development skills (HTML, Flash, JavaScript, Ajax, Flex) to build and deploy RIAs to the desktop. ... Apollo will enable anyone with basic web development skills to create a desktop application."

"I’m confused. What is Grand Central? Is that Apollo alpha. A pre-cursor or just something everyone wants to forget about? Google remembers it - 611k mentions of it - in fact. Others panned it back then."

"We didn’t buy Macromedia, we bought the market."

"Flash is a distraction." HERETIC!!! (*snicker*)

In comments: "I felt as if I was just told my grandmother died. Let's all have a moment of silence for Macromedia."

"Synergy schmynergy; these integrated solutions from the acquisition are almost certainly going to result in (relative) stagnation. At least until someone can seriously compete with an $800 million (revenues) company." Ugh.

"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion." Holy crap.

Seems pretty dern nifty, if only it weren't so expensive. ($12K!!!)