Adobe Clarifies GoLive & FreeHand Position; Neither Discontinued
TMO Reports - Adobe Clarifies GoLive & FreeHand Position; Neither Discontinued
by , 4:55 AM EDT, June 1st, 2006
Adobe has no direct plans to discontinue its GoLive and FreeHand applications, contrary to statements attributed to French Adobe officials published Wendesday, May 31st. According to a statement given to The Mac Observer, Adobe plans to continue support for both products, as well as to continue development of both, though with a caveat.
"Adobe plans to continue to support GoLive and Freehand and develop these products based on our customer's needs," the company told TMO. "Clearly Dreamweaver and Illustrator are market leading when it comes to web design/development and vector graphics/illustration. Customers should expect Adobe to concentrate our development efforts around these two products - with regards to future innovation and Creative Suite integration."
Accordingly, neither product is slated for end-of-life status as of yet, but continued development will likely depend on customer interest. How that might be measured is only Adobe's to know.
At issue is the overlap between Adobe's GoLive Web development application and Macromedia's Dreamweaver, which Adobe acquired when it acquired Macromedia itself. Dreamweaver has long been the dominant of the two apps in the Web development space. Conversely, Adobe's Illustrator has been the market leader in the illustration space in which it competes with Macromedia's FreeHand.
With Adobe and Macromedia merged, all four products have been watched by the industry, as such mergers usually result in the disappearance of some products. GoLive and FreeHand are both the most logical choice for the chopping block considering their respective market shares.
On Wednesday, such speculation seemed to be borne out when officially of Adobe's French arm announced they would be phased out. If one follows Adobe's statement, that announcement was either premature or a miscommunication between the US and French arms of the company.
Also, it is worth noting that neither FreeHand nor GoLive are listed on Adobe's home page, though both can be found on Adobe's product page. This is, however, in keeping with Adobe's position that both products will be supported, while development will be "based on customer's needs."
Observer Comments
"Based on our customers needs"??? Ok, Adobe... I own both applications. I need both applications to become Universal Binaries. Since you are continuing development based upon the customers needs, when can I expect a Universal Binary of Freehand and GoLive?
If you can't answer that question, than the statement you issued has is about as credible as a Bill Clinton press conference.
From what I understand the Creative Suite program need to rewritten from the ground up in order to be Universal Binaries. Something about be written in chai instead of cocoa or whatever is the programming environment that Apple recommends. Anyway, they are probably writing a whole new web authoring program, better CSS support and all.
I need to pipe in with that I much prefer GoLive over DreamWeaver, but I will learn to use the tool I need to get the job done. "A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. - Robert Hughes"
Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:21 pm Subject: Takes a village--or a small city
QuoteGuest wrote:
"Based on our customers needs"??? Ok, Adobe... I own both applications. I need both applications to become Universal Binaries. Since you are continuing development based upon the customers needs, when can I expect a Universal Binary of Freehand and GoLive?
You and how many thousand other users? They're not going to respond to just one person's needs. Get together with other users and send emails and letters to Adobe. Please don't ask me, "How do I find other users?" That's your problem. I belong to several discussion groups for software I use. Check for such groups for your software.
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