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May 31, 2006
Unofficially official
Unofficially official: The headline at Ars Technica reads "Adobe officially kills GoLive and Freehand". For the record, I haven't seen any official announcement of the sort. I know that last week there were various blogs talking about things that someone said they heard in Adobe roadshows in Europe. I have not seen any direct quotations, and have seen nothing on the Adobe site about this. I understand that people inside Adobe are working on some type of PR response, but I haven't seen it yet. That's what I've got. (I'm tracking Google News, Blogsearch, and newsgroups.) Summary: Despite the certainty among some reports, I have no direct info on this story yet myself.
Posted by John Dowdell at May 31, 2006 04:57 PM
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I can't imagine why adobe would continue to invest in GoLive or Freehand post merger. I can only pray Fireworks dosn't suffer a similar fate. As i'm sure there is some overlap of fireworks and Photoshop and Image Ready.
Posted by: Ryan Favro at May 31, 2006 06:22 PM
No suprises with Freehand and GoLive getting the ax but I'd bet on ImageReady getting canned before Fireworks. I never really understood the usefulness of ImageReady.
[jd sez: The point of this post is that no one knows what was actually said, and there has been nothing "officially announced" via the Adobe site itself. More speculation is against the nature of this post.]
Posted by: brandon at May 31, 2006 06:44 PM
John Nack has the best info yet.
Posted by: John Dowdell at May 31, 2006 07:25 PM
More at MacWorld.
Posted by: John Dowdell at May 31, 2006 07:29 PM
But what about Pagemill?!
Posted by: PaulC at June 1, 2006 07:17 AM
I was in France and I heard Robert Raiola (Marketing Director - Adobe France)
I told the 400 people in the audience exactly this:
There are 3 main questions that are coming over and over to us. I will answer all of them right now so need to ask anymore...
1/ Freehand will not be developed anymore, only maintenance releases are expected. All formerly FH and AI developpers are working hard on the next version of Illustrator (this probably means as well that next version will integrate Freehand features and/or FH import tool)
2/ Dreamweaver is the market leader and will be integrated in the next Adobe suite. GoLive will continue to live apart from the suite, dedicated to specific markets, not yet defined
3/ The next realease of the Adobe suite, CS3, will be MacIntel native and is expected to be released next Spring (so, before June 20, 2007 ;)
Posted by: Chris at June 1, 2006 09:59 AM
The Unofficial word I heard was that Adobe will continue selling GoLive until they run out of preproduced stock and that boxed product production has halted. [jd sez: Heard where?]
What I expect to see will be much the same as pagemaker. If you try to order pagemaker you are taken to a site that says "You should hear all the benefits of using Indesign".
Posted by: Rich at June 1, 2006 11:19 AM
Sorry, there was a mistake in my comment...
You should of course read "He told the 400 people in the audience exactly this"
...but you made the correction by yourself, aren't you ?
Posted by: Chris at June 1, 2006 11:44 AM
I have been using Freehand since Aldus Freehand 1.0 many moons ago.
I know there is probably some political reasons why but how about multi-page support in AI? I am sure the InDesign guys would like it, but InDesign is a page layout program. I need multi-page support IN my drawing program.
[jd sez: Better to hit the wishlist to get the request to the team... I don't work directly on any of the publishing products myself.]
Posted by: Jason McMinn at June 2, 2006 03:19 PM