Adobe and Macromedia

Adobe (the Big Gun of the print software world) recently acquired Macromedia, the online communication guru. Current information will be provided at this link. Colleagues of mine reacted in different ways! Some weren't at all surprised ... others were concerned about how it would affect their jobs (particularly if they are currently serving as resources for a certain software package). Undoubtedly some applications will be phased out. But ... most of what Macromedia has developed doesn't overlap with Adobe ... their strength is graphics and print media. Most people are familiar with the ubiquitous pdf document, an Adobe development. And the strong Macromedia applications (such as Dreamweaver and Flash) are here to stay; Adobe is "too smart" not to recognize that. I think that there is everything to gain and not much to lose, as applications are developed to accommodate a wide range of media (everything from the television set to the hand-held device).