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Adobe Announces Macromedia-filled Application Bundles

by , 1:35 PM EST, December 5th, 2005

Fresh on the heels of its acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe announced new Creative Suite bundles on Monday. The two new Creative Suite packages include former Macromedia applications, and are geared towards enhancing the power and flexibility of Adobe's application packages, and reasserting its powerhouse position in the design market.

The Adobe Design Bundle includes Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium with Flash Professional 8. The CS2 Premium applications include Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, GoLive CS2, Acrobat 7 Professional, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos.

The Adobe Web Bundle includes Adobe Creative Suite 2 and Studio 8. Studio 8 includes Dreamweaver 8, Flash Professional 8, Fireworks 8, Contribute 3, and FlashPaper 2, which gives users essentially all of the mainstream Web development tools in one package. Since this bundle includes both the Adobe CS2 Premium package, and Macromedia's Studio 8 package, it throws former competing Web design products, GoLive and Dreamweaver, together in the same box.

A third bundle, geared towards video editors, is slated for an early 2006 release, but will most likely be a Windows-only based package.

The Adobe Adobe Design Bundle is priced at US$1599, and the Web Bundle is $1899.

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Close Name:Al Swearengen Posts: 339 Joined: 10 May 2005
Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:16 pm Subject: And of course

I upgraded to CS2 a few months ago and I can't justify spending more just to get Flash and DreamWeaver. I guess I will wait for the next upgrade of Creative Suite.

I wonder what will happen with the products in the future. I am "one of those guys" who prefer GoLive over DreamWeaver, will they come up with some sort of combination program with features from both.


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Close Name:Bryan -   TMO Staff Posts: 7326 Joined: 11 Jun 2001
Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:58 pm Subject:

Al, I am a GoLive person, too, and for one reason: File management. GoLive's Project ability knocks the socks off of Dreamweaver's (lack of) file management, and my personal hope is that this feature will be brought into Dreamweaver.

My educated guess (not based on any inside information) is that GoLive will be -phased out, as Dreamweaver has mind and market share in this space. Again, I do hope that GoLive's better features survive that process.

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Close Name:Al Swearengen Posts: 339 Joined: 10 May 2005
Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:15 pm Subject: Spot on!

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Bryan wrote:
Al, I am a GoLive person, too, and for one reason: File management. GoLive's Project ability knocks the socks off of Dreamweaver's (lack of) file management, and my personal hope is that this feature will be brought into Dreamweaver.

My educated guess (not based on any inside information) is that GoLive will be -phased out, as Dreamweaver has mind and market share in this space. Again, I do hope that GoLive's better features survive that process.

Bryan
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TMO


Yes, the file management is, in my opinion, much better in GoLive. Also nice integration with Bridge and other Adobe graphics products. There is a look and feel aspect to it that I like. Time will tell, and Adobe needs to redo their programs for the upcoming Intel based Macs, so we may see something amazingly great fusion next year



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