Adobe Kills Freehand and GoLive
May 31st, 2006 by Blue Chi
Posted in 2D, Vector, Web Development
Adobe officially announced at a recent event that it will halt the development of Freehand, the vector based drawing tool, and GoLive, the web development tool, to concentrate on the creation of the new iterations of Illustrator and Dreamweaver. This does not come a surprise as the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe last year resulted in Adobe having a collection of competing applications that did the same basic job. Users of Freehand and GoLive might not miss them completely as some of their noticeable features might find their way in the upcoming versions of Illustrator and Dreamweaver.
Igor Bogun| photography
Event Handing in ActionScript 3.0
Using the TransitionManager Class in AS3
Drawing Homer Simpson in Photoshop
Drawing a Vista Style Folded Tip Icon
[...] The recent news that came out a couple of days ago about Adobe discontinuing its development and support for Freehand and GoLive were denied by an Adobe representative that spoke to Macworld UK stating that Adobe does not intend to discontinue the GoLive and Freehand product lines. [...]
[...] Many have expected this to take place long ago as it did not seem to make sense for Adobe to produce two competing products. It would not be shocking to hear that Adobe is going to kill GoLive next. [...]