From the "Holy crap where did this come from" department, it seems that Adobe is buying Macromedia. It’s an all-stock transaction ringing in around $3.4 billion.
What this means (to me, anyways) is that Adobe has further cemented themselves as the software vendor for web and graphic design. Okay, they already were, but I’d say that Dreamweaver had quite a lead over InDesign, and most likely would have kept that lead. Also, Adobe had nothing resembling ColdFusion — I hope that they don’t abandon it. CFML is still a fairly significant chunk of the web programming space, and it would be a shame to see it disappear; the latest version has some pretty slick features.
Anyways. These are the news.
