More thoughts on the merger

I recently posted this message to our local Macromedia User Group, which I manage.

I've had some time to let the purchase sink in a bit. I spent the majority of yesterday evening going over all of the User Group Managers and Macromedia employee thoughts on the merger.

Overall - I'm taking a positive light on the change. This will expand the software offerings that are covered by our User Group and will allow some of the Macromedia products to be given more resources and make them even better than they already are now.

I'm keeping my eye on any changes that will happen with the User Group community - and I'm thinking it will only be good news. As of right now, and at least till end of year - we'll still be Macromedia focused and cover Macromedia focused topics at the meetings. If things change you'll all be the first to know.

If you haven't had a chance to read them yet, I'll point you to three blog entries that give me a better feel of what may happen in the near future as we progress.

Ben Forta - CF Evangelist
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=e&entry=1596

Kevin Lynch - Chief Software Architect (Macromedia)
http://www.klynch.com/archives/000078.html

Mike Chambers - CF / Flash Developer Relations / Product Manager (Macromedia)
http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/007504.cfm

Here is also an interesting article about Adobe GoLive vs. Dreamweaver - the reason I post this is because it's my belief that you can pretty much expect the best of both of these products in the next version that Adobe will release. Now that's good news!

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/battle_of_the_wysiwygs/