Adobe Aquires Macromedia

Truly momentous, for a while now Adobe have been worrying themselves over how to deal with Dreamweaver, Flash and all the other excellent tools that Macromedia own. So it appears that in a stock based deal worth approximately US$ 3.4 billion they have managed to secure a great collection of software and creative tools as well as an inroads to future mobile markets. I hope that they continue Golive for the time being but that they transfer much of the good stuff into a new hybrid application which takes Dreamweaver to the next level (I always liked the name Dreamweaver). Only time will tell ... but integration of the web publishing suite into CS and the addition of support for Version Cue and all the other CS goodies will make this a designers dream. Talk about a partnership made to make Quark Quake ... sorry I couldn't help myself. :)