Now that Adobe has officially aquired Macromedia and the latter is now simply called Adobe (what’s in a name), the fuzz about the new application bundles takes off again. I can count myself as one of the people who would love to see Flash and Dreamweaver bundled along with Photoshop and Acrobat for example. That would make one hell of a webdesign bundle wouldn’t it?
Well Adobe is going in the right direction, they are offering three new bundles:
The most interesting at the moment is the Web bundle which combines Macromedia’s Studio 8 and Adobe’s Creative Suite 2. Unfortunatly that leaves me with the same problem as before, i buy a suite of products of which i’ll probably only need half. Indesign? Don’t need it. Illustrator, might come in handy but i can do without. Flashpaper? You’ve got Acrobat, who needs this? GoLive? Nah, i preffer dreamweaver. Fireworks? No need for that if you got Photoshop.
Adobe is sure taking the right direction by offering combined products but this is overkill. If they stay faithfull to their release cycle we should be getting a new Creative Suite within a year or so and i sure hope they’ll offer something in the lines of Dreamweaver 9, Flash 9 pro, Acrobat 8 and Photoshop CS3 all bundled together as the ultimate webdesigners suite.
Go Adobe!
mmm , sounds like dreamweaver will work together with photoshop. the ultimate webdesigntool