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Macromedia reports record earnings, merger

updated 06:05 pm EST, Tue January 16, 2001

Macromedia today reported a profit of $16.2 million for its third quarter, a 97 percent year-over-year increase, on revenues of $103.3 million, a 61 percent increase. The company also announced that it will merge with Allaire, an e-commerce content management company. Meanwhile, Handspring reported a narrower-than-expected loss of 7 centers per share on revenue of $115.62 million. Wall St. had expected a loss of 12 cents per share.

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php

so i guess this means we not see php in ultradev anytime soon? will they begin to favor cold fusion.

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So much for Whirlwind

Remember when Macromedia showed off Whirlwind? I guess the development of that product was going so poorly they had to buy another company instead just like they did with Drumbeat!

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e-commerce?

Um .. Allaire is a far cry from an e-commerce company. ColdFusion, Spectra, HomeSite and Jrun are all software development and production applications in some way. This is a good thing for the development community, and certainly a good thing for Allaire and Macromedia. Allaire gets good leadership and great front-end tools, while Macromedia gets great back-end tools.

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whither php?

The first poster had it right. With Macromedia's acquisition of Allaire, the odds of seeing full PHP support in UltraDev have now dropped to just slightly more than zero.

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Dreamweaver + Homesite

We could see Dreamweaver step into a position that will be nearly impossible to challenge. Just think of Dreamweaver with Homesite as the HTML editing window. No competitors would be able to come even close to the power of a tool like that.

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Homesite for Mac?

What will be interesting to see is if down the road Homesite/CF Studio are released for the Mac. BBEdit has a loyal, installed base and would likely survive that move. But importantly to Apple, having Allaire's tools on the Mac will mean more sales of Mac computuers. Also, ColdFusion 5.0 will eventually be complete Java based -- which opens it up to running on the MacOS with some minor tweaking (currently CF runs on Intel-based machines in 4 unixs and, of Course Windows NT).

This is a good move. As for PHP, it's popular because it's free and more crossplatform friendly right now. Having Cold Fusion and Homesite, and possibly Spectra and JRun in the future, will lead to more choices for us and more Macs replacing Intel machines.

Bravo!

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Cold Fusion Rocks

I'm a Mac web developer. The only tool I really need my PC for is
for ColdFusion. With this merger, I hope the Allaire group becomes more involved in the Mac community. For the un-initiated, ColdFusion is an incredible tool ... actually quite Mac-Like in its approach. I've seen ASP, Java, etc. ColdFusion beats them all, hands down, end of discussion. Bringing it into the Mac community would be a very popular (and profitable) move.

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c*** + c*** = ?

what a great combination. two crappy companies with crappy products create on giant steaming pile of c***!

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what a great combination. two crappy companies with crappy products create on giant steaming pile of c***!

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Hrmm...

We are halfway through our first Lasso solution. When I told my boss of the merger this morning, he said, "Guess our database solutions will be changing sometime, huh?"

This really is a big deal for the Mac Web Crowd.

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CF for the Mac

Actually, Allaire had a Mac version (2.0, I think) that they discontinued in '99. Whether or not Macromedia will revive it is anyone's guess...I suppose it's up to the Mac development community to "create the need".

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CF is awesome

I do Web Design for Hamilton College (see out newly launched site at www.hamilton.edu) and use Cold Fusion extensively. It is an awesome product, and I'm sure that anyone else who has used it will agree.; Except for one problem, its complete lack of support for Macs. If we can get Macromedia to support OS X in its upcoming FULLY JAVA 5.0 version, we will have the best web serving platform in existence. I have written several letters to Allaire and just get blown off. Is anyone is interested in lobbying for Mac support, please e-mail me at jthomas2@adelphia.net. For those of you who haven't seen ColdFusion before, take a look. . .

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Who cares?

With OSX coming out very soon, the real developers will be using PHP, not CFML or other sissy junk. We will be using Apache, PHP, mySQL and kicking every else's butt. They're all free, and with the exception of mySQL, they kick everything elses butt because they're real unix tools. If you want me to pull out stats then you'll see that PHP is getting more popular and will be more popular than ASP. Forget about CFML. How much does it cost to develop in it? How much does it cost to deploy? How about the same site with PHP/Apache/mySQL? Thought so.

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MacNN Uses PHP

Just wanted to share that with you. They don't use CFML.

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whiter PHP again

The biggest disappointment of UltraDev is the lack of PHP support. This pretty much seals the deal that PHP will not be rolled into dreamweaver any time soon. Oh well.

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Macromedia reports record earnings, merger

updated 06:05 pm EST, Tue January 16, 2001

php

So much for Whirlwind

e-commerce?

whither php?

Dreamweaver + Homesite

Homesite for Mac?

Cold Fusion Rocks

c* + c* = ?

c* + c* = ?

Hrmm...

CF for the Mac

CF is awesome

Who cares?

MacNN Uses PHP

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