[Leica] OT: Adobe buys Macromedia

[jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Mark:

I like GoLive myself but am guessing that Adobe will drop it in favor of 
DreamWeaver.

Jim

Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm glad because I'm an Adobe kind of guy from Day one with the CS Suite
> which cost as much as an M6 and having built my website with Adobe's GoLive
> which is now in that suite instead of the prevailing ubiquitous Macromedias
> Dreamweaver which everyone in the world except for me does their site with.
> 
> I'm sorry but there's no way I'm going to use software called "Dreamweaver"
> no matter how good it is and how many people use it.
> 
> I hated that song. 
> And it's in my head right now and I wont be able to shake it for at least
> five minutes.
> Worse than fingernails on the blackboard.
> 
> And also don't like the name "Macromedia" which sounds like a dozen other
> software companies I've invested in their software and were here today gone
> tomorrow leaving me stranded.
> 
> Give me "Adobe" anyday.
> Command D for "place". And so on.
> Red.
> A consistent interface. I'm going to paint my house those colors.
> 
> I'm bearing through the new "classroom in a box" for the new GoLive CS so I
> can absorb CCS or CSS and get my website looking good. The fonts and all.
> Already I've got a leg up on rollovers which have taken over all half 
> decent
> websites, templates and putting movies in at will.
> Domination of the universe seems immanent.
> 
> There is no GoLive CS Bible all there is is the classroom thing.
> And no documentation.
> They stole that idea from Bill Gates.
> Save paper yea right.
> 
> I'm planning on taking a course in Illustrator and am loving InDesign which
> is the key I think to electronic publishing. PDF's and all. As well as 
> paper
> publishing. Which is also good.
> I'm going to get a postscript thing for my printer.
> 
> Go Adobe!
> What a little sun-dried, unburned bricks of clay and straw will do!
> 
> 
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/