Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

12/07/05

A little worried...

Filed under: Cerebration, Adobe and Macromedia — timwang @ 11:59:35 pm

A few days after the historical merge between Adobe and Macromedia, I have been hearing various of bad rumors around the Macromedia developers' community. The news evolve from Macromedia tech support staff losing their jobs to Adobe may combine their Acrobat Reader with Flash Player into one compiler... The news really worries me, especially the second one. This speculation is based on the vivid words in the merge FAQ published by Adobe. Everyone knows Macromedia shockwave (Director) has less popularity compare to Flash due to its player is a little larger than the tiny Flash player. Adobe Acrobat reader is a 20mb compiler, if flash audiences need to download this giant player along with the Flash player, the demand will decline dramatically and the great Flash technology may eventually be replaced by others. I am hoping these rumors are caused by the uncertainty from the early stage of the product line merge. Hope the brilliant Adobe and Macromedia engineers work together and keep all the fascinating products at their best fit into today's web technology... My fingers are crossed.


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Comments:

Comment from: John Dowdell [Visitor] · http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd
The Flash Player will remain small, and I think most of the staffers you may have actually met will still be here... my friends who are leaving Macromedia are mostly in the business side of things (accounting, facilities, HR) than the products, and the Flash and Acrobat clientside software will eventually develop a framework for cooperation, but the Player still needs to be small, fast, invisible, accessible.

Any change requires re-examination of many things, for sure, but from where I'm sitting the details look better than they may from afar.

jd/mm
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Comment from: timwang [Member] Email · http://blog.loaz.com/timwang
Thanks for the clarification John. I'm much released to hear this from you. It would been nice if I had come to visit you guys last week when I was in SF for Pachyderm meeting. Anyway, will look forward to the new product line...
PermalinkPermalink 12/08/05 @ 19:10
Comment from: Daniel McLaren [Visitor] · http://www.ponderbox.com
The possibility of a merging of Acrobat Reader and Flash player does indeed sound scary. If Flash player takes as long to load as Acrobat's plugin does... *shudder* ...I may change jobs and become a bleach salesman.
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