Adobe Denies GoLive, Freehand Reports

Several web sites alleged that Adobe would dump its developer tools GoLive and Macromedia Freehand in favor of other products. Adobe has no plans to discontinue development or support of either product, the company said in a MacWorld story from the MacNN website cited remarks made by Adobe at London's 'Adobe Live Conference' and picked up by French-language site MacGeneration. Adobe would phase out Freehand and migrate users to Illustrator, and drop GoLive in favor of the more popular Dreamweaver. Not so, according to MacWorld, which heard from Adobe on the issue: "Adobe plans to continue to support GoLive and Freehand and develop these products based on our customer's needs," an Adobe representative told Macworld in a statement. "Clearly Dreamweaver and Illustrator are market leading when it comes to web design/development and vector graphics/illustration," said the Adobe statement. "Customers should expect Adobe to concentrate our development efforts around these two products with regards to future innovation and Creative Suite integration." The development of those products will follow Mac users along to the new Intel-based Macintosh hardware. Adobe's Creative Suite includes the company's signature software, Photoshop, and several other products like Illustrator and GoLive; MacWorld said Adobe has committed to them on the Intel platform. On the humorous side of web development, blogger Elliot Swan Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.