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DavidB:
It looks like Adobe's purchase of Macromedia (maker of the popular Dreamweaver and Flash) may bring it into increased competition with Microsoft, as I predicted some time ago. Not that it takes a rocket scientist to make such a prediciton, but there were certain people on the Dreamweaver forum who thought I was full of it.

This could get interesting. Incidentally, I've always wondered why Microsoft never went after Dreamweaver the way it has gone after other competitors. Apparently, Microsoft's FrontPage is more popular, but Dreamweaver is still a powerful contender.

Certain observations I've made on the Dreamweaver forum led me to suspect that the two corporations had signed some sort of pact. Now that Dreamweaver has a new owner, I wonder whether the competition might increase.

In the meantime, I learned recently that there's a (new?) open source web design software program that may rival Dreamweaver.

God, I hope all of this works in Bill Gates' favor - NOT. I love competition. :)

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/235686_adobe08.html

Refalm:
I can remember news messages that Microsoft was interested in Macromedia too.

I hope that the people who made Flash etc. aren't fucked with by Adobe.
But I don't see any problem here, if they where taken over by Microsoft, it probably would have been a lot worse.

Lord C:
lol Frontpage is not a competitor to Dreamweaver.
They are in totally seperate markets.

As for the Open Source developer ... NVU :)
It's great. Started out as Mozilla's Composer, look at it now.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote ---lol Frontpage is not a competitor to Dreamweaver.
--- End quote ---
I would've thought they were. They both do very much the same thing. Unless.. Would I be right in saying that newbies use Frontpage and professionals use Dreamweaver? I'm only thinking that 'cause I've seen so many shit websites designed in Frontpage..

NVU looks brilliant. Haven't used it though 'cause it's Qt (and I don't have/use Qt). And the only Qt app I'd love to be Gtk+.

Jenda:
Frontpage is the scourge of the internet. Alng with IE. And MS Windows...

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