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Adobe to Drop GoLive, FreeHand
by , 7:45 AM EDT, May 31st, 2006
Adobe Systems France announced at Adobe Live that the development of GoLive and FreeHand will be phased out. Adobe representative Robert Raiola stated that Dreamweaver will get a new interface and replace GoLive as the Web development application in the Creative Suite 3 package, due out in spring 2007.
According to a report at Macsimum News, which is based on an article at the French MacGeneration, Adobe committed to supporting the two lame duck applications for the time being. In fact, an update for FreeHand will be released some time this year.
The demise of FreeHand and GoLive isn't exactly a surprise considering that FreeHand competes directly with Illustrator, and GoLive competes with Dreamweaver. Prior to Adobe's purchase of Macromedia in December 2005, FreeHand languished with little support while Macromedia focused on its Web and multimedia products like Flash and Dreamweaver.
Observer Comments
Okay, so they are "phasing out" FreeHand & GoLive. Does that mean each product will cease to exist, or are they to be sold off (like when Adobe acquired FH when they purchased Aldus, then sold FH to Macromedia and kept PageMaker)?
I'm an Illustrator user, and at least so far, Adobe has shown me they will keep innovating regardless of the fact theat there may be no real competition in the market. (Photoshop being a prime example.) They realize that they need to sell upgrades to their own existing wares... but even still, I think the presence of FreeHand in the market is good for everyone. (CorelDRAW! is there, but they are in such a niche market that it's tough for me to really consider that product a competitor to Illustrator across the board.)
Wed May 31, 2006 11:24 am Subject: This is why I read these articles every day
I just started a Master's program in Educational Technology. They wanted me to buy Dreamweaver, but I've been with GoLive since the beginning and was going to "fight the powers". Now my future is sealed. Without reporting like this, I'd have been able to save $$$.
Just kidding, I'm glad they finally decided which programs to let go.
Wed May 31, 2006 11:35 am Subject: Long time Freehand and Illustrator User
One of my first experiences on a Mac was learning and using Aldus Freehand and really liked using it better that Illustrator. But by the time version 10 came out Macromedia lost interest in it and it started to flounder. For me and a few computers I manage it ended up being buggy and unstable. The following version(s) seemed to curb most of that but Macromedia was content on not doing much with the application.
I've been using Illustrator for just about as long as I have Freehand and hope that Adobe will incorporate some of the features of Freehand in the next version of Illustrator. (Multiple pages for example.)
GoLive is an application I never really learned. I have an older version and ended up using Dreamweaver more and have been quite content using Dreamweaver that I never felt compelled going back to GoLive for another try.
Quotefultonkbd wrote:
...hope that Adobe will incorporate some of the features of Freehand in the next version of Illustrator. (Multiple pages for example.)
Why am I not seeing the reason for this? Lotsa people request this feature, but all I can see is it adding "feature bloat". Although you CAN design pages with Illustrator, InDesign (or Quark Xpress if you're stuck with that) is really a better tool for that. Illustrator is good for, well, illustrations... and logos... and visual elements you'd put into your page design.
Anybody who has Illustrator very likely has Photoshop, so if you bought both, then you have the Creative Suite (or previously, a "collection"), so you have InD already there. There's your multi-page document right there.
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Just a few simple comments and observations regarding the immenent demise of GoLive:
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NO, no, no, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
And furthermore,
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Thank you all for listening....
Wed May 31, 2006 11:02 pm Subject: Confusion abounds
According to MacWorld at
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/31/adobe/index.php
the reports are not true.
Adobe "officially" denies it's dropping either app. That rings hollow to any Mac FrameMaker user who believed Adobe would quit dragging their feet and get an OSX-native version running.
Frankly, Adobe saying they're not dropping a product says nothing about what they actually plan to do.
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