What's New: Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4 Billion

Adobe Systems Inc. announced Monday it will acquire Macromedia Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. An interesting move, this consolidates two of the largest digital content software publishers. It will be interesting to see what effect this has on competing products such as:

Adobe Macromedia
GoLive Dreamweaver
Illustrator Freehand
Photoshop Fireworks
PDF FlashPaper

Monday, Apr 18, 2005 01:18 pm CDT

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