On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 08:25 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html
I think it's good news for us. There will be people scared or disgusted by the forming monopoly and looking for alternatives. Also, it seems likely that Freehand will be either discontinued or at least downplayed so as to not hurt Illustrator, which means a lot of users will have to migrate. All this gives us a certain opportunity.
IMO: Either SVG will continue to be pushed, or it will be left by the wayside. It is obvious that SVG has been pushed by ADOBE in order to compete with FLASH. They have tried to make their plugin formidable to flash, but have not succeeded to break the saturated flash market.
I think that since ADOBE has Flash now, there is no need to sink monies into SVG, as they own it all and will control that area of the market from their centralized headquarters...I don't think it is a good thing this consolidation for SVG.
However, since many analysts say Adobe purchased Macromedia to compete with M$, maybe M$ will see the light and push for SVG or their WVG to compete with Adobe's fortification.
Jon