Oh shit, this is big... Adobe is acquiring the entirity of Macromedia for $3.4 billion. I'm not sure how I feel about this. And neither does William, "All we need now is for Microsoft to acquire Adobe." Indeed. I must say this caught me completely off guard, more on this once I get my composure back. More here... The combination of Adobe and Macromedia strengthens our mission of helping people and organizations communicate better. Through the combination of our powerful development, authoring and collaboration tools and the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash we have the opportunity to drive an industry-defining technology platform that delivers compelling, rich content and applications across a wide range of devices and operating systems. UPDATE: I'm feeling better, the motion sickness is mostly gone now. If people got all funny when Macromedia started offering the Yahoo! toolbar, it will be interesting to see how the community reacts to this. What does that mean to the future of things like Flash Paper, Freehand and Fireworks? UPDATE 2: Mario Klinegmann (Quasimondo) has this to say about the merger: Still don't know if I like it or not - but I really hope that Macromedia's great corporate culture will survive the merger. What will probably not survive are some competing software packages: Freehand vs. Illustrator, Dreamweaver vs. GoLive, Fireworks vs. Photoshop. And I think that there's not much guesswork necessary to decide who will be the surviviors in those battles. Flash will have not much to fear as I doubt that LiveMotion will rise from the grave.