Adobe: Goodbye to Freehand and GoLive
The Macsimum news site is reporting that during the Adobe Live conference, Robert Raiola of Adobe Systems France said that Adobe will halt the development of Freehand and GoLive.
It was long expected that Adobe would either cease development of Freehand or sell it off. Apparently, Adobe feels it’s in its interest in keeping the program but ceasing development.
GoLive was a bigger question mark. Dreamweaver came with the Macromedia acquisition and has a large installed base. But GoLive had extremely tight integration with the Creative Suite. Professional web developers can now breathe a sigh of relief that Dreamweaver will be now be part of the Creative Suite. It was also noted that Dreamweaver will see an interface overhaul to bring it more in line with the rest of the Adobe applications.
Update: Adobe has issued a “clarification” to the MacObserver, who also ran this story yesterday. “Adobe plans to continue to support GoLive and Freehand and develop these products based on our customer’s needs. Clearly Dreamweaver and Illustrator are market leading when it comes to web design/development and vector graphics/illustration. Customers should expect Adobe to concentrate our development efforts around these two products – with regards to future innovation and Creative Suite integration.”
OS X Factor Translation: We don’t want to completely rule out updating either Freehand or GoLive for our current customers, or possibly repackage them as entry-level stand alone products. However, they will not be part of the Creative Suite and will not get the attention that Illustrator and Dreamweaver will get.
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