Macromedia

Macromedia is a graphics and web development software house. Macromedia was formed by the 1992 merger of Authorware, Inc. (makers of Authorware) and MacroMind-Paracomp (makers of Macromind Director). Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California.

Macromedia continued on the M&A trail and in December , and Macromedia added several popular server and Web development products to their portfolio including [http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion ColdFusion] and [http://www.macromedia.com/software/jrun JRun].

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On April 18 2005 Adobe Systems announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia in a stock swap valued at about $3.4 billion on the last trading day before the announcement.

[http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html Macromedia Press Release] [http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html Adobe Press Release] [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Adobe_to_Purchase_Macromedia_for_%243.4_Billion Wikinews article]

= Products =

*Macromedia Studio - A complete toolset (Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute and FlashPaper) *Macromedia Flash - An animation tool for rich web content *Macromedia Dreamweaver - An HTML editor, with both visual and code support *Macromedia Breeze - A web conferencing tool *Macromedia Flex - A web application builder *Macromedia ColdFusion - A web server that serves dynamic .cfm content. Similar to ASP and PHP *Macromedia Director - A multimedia authoring program *Authorware#Macromedia_Authorware - A visual authoring tool for creating e-learning applications *Macromedia FreeHand - A vector graphics editor *Macromedia Fireworks - A graphics editor *Macromedia Contribute - A simple visual HTML editor for end user website maintenance *Macromedia Robohelp - A tool to build help systems *Macromedia Captivate - Formerly Robodemo, a screen recording device that creates interactive demos *Macromedia Shockwave - A media player that plays content made in Macromedia Director *Macromedia JRun - A J2EE server *Macromedia Flash Communication Server - A server platform for Flash development *Macromedia HomeSite - A code based HTML editor *Macromedia FlashPaper - A tool that turns documents to FlashPaper or PDF *Fontographer - Type authoring software, now sold by [http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/Fontographer/ Fontlab] *Macromedia Central - A crossplatform Flash application platform *Macromedia FlashCast - A Flash platform for mobile devices *Macromedia Web Publishing System - A complete software suite for building and running web pages

For the future of Macromedia please look to Adobe Systems for more information about the new structures of Adobe/Macromedia.

= See also =

= External links =

*[http://www.macromedia.com/ Macromedia website] *[http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/story/ Macromedia: The Story] *[http://weblogs.macromedia.com/ Macromedia Weblogs] *[http://www.adobe.com/ Adobe Systems Incorporated]