Adobe buys Macromedia for $3.4 billion. I didnt see this coming – I am shocked as I was shocked when AOL bought Netscape.

I wonder what happens to competing softwares – Photoshop v/s Fireworks, Dreamweaver v/s GoLive, Flash v/s LiveMotion(?) – but it would be too stupid of Adobe to kill MMs software – no, not in a million years. Except possibly Photoshop and Illustrator, Macromedia trumps Adobe flat with its killer Flash and Dreamweaver. My guess is that Adobe will let MM do its own thing in SFO’s Landsend while it does its thing in San Jose. I cant figure out why this doesn’t violate Anti-trust laws, by this merger they flattened out the field.