Adobe grabs Macromedia

Zonkers!

So what will this mean for designers?

I can see as much goon in there as I can see bad in this. The good point, application interaction. It should work now as we need it. The bad part, Adobe now has all control over the market. No competition anymore, they rule the publication market. Adobe now has become a power that Quark cannot withstand. Even that I really despise Quark Xpress, now I pity them since that had a lot of interesting ideas with their publishing systems.

But there are a lot of good guys in the Adobe Ark, I know some of them personally, so I don't see it as the end of the world or something like that, more like a beginning of better, easier times for all of us. Especially for web standards, only one company that needs to be taught and they like to listen (even if they act much later).