I abhor Macromedia's decision to try and ram their whole product line down our throats whether we want it or not. Loyal customers who don't need the whole line are really being abused. And the price is NOT reasonable when being forced to buy much that you don't want or need!
Submitted by Marsha Casey on Tue, 04/30/2002 - 05:35.
While I may not like to buy the suite considering I already have Freehand 10 and Flash 5, it's no different than the enticements Adobe offers. But what is really exciting is the future vision that is being proferred. From the moment I saw my first Flash site, I knew this was something I wanted to move towards. I suffered through 2 versions of GoLive, and LiveMotion 1 and to be fair, they work. But judging by the responses on the GoLive forum, it isn't working well for a whole lot of people.
I'm glad these new versions of Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, and Flash have come out before I sunk my money into GoLive 6!
I don't think you _have_ to buy the suite. I'm pretty sure you can just buy what you want. The suite is an enticement to go Macromedia all the way, and I have to say that it's a pretty good price for that much software.
The Beta was sweet, a little bit of a resource hog but this was with 64mb of ram <--self explanitory. i like how they all work together and it all fits on a 17inch monitor or a 12.1 lcd laptop screen . i say buy it if your a student like me it ran me 199 for the complete package it is worth it and better than wasting your money at the movie theater for movies coming out on dvd in 4 months
Submitted by ubuildsowhat on Thu, 06/13/2002 - 05:38.
Thanks
Thank you for this very interesting and informative article.
Bundle is really bad
I abhor Macromedia's decision to try and ram their whole product line down our throats whether we want it or not. Loyal customers who don't need the whole line are really being abused. And the price is NOT reasonable when being forced to buy much that you don't want or need!
The future is now
While I may not like to buy the suite considering I already have Freehand 10 and Flash 5, it's no different than the enticements Adobe offers. But what is really exciting is the future vision that is being proferred. From the moment I saw my first Flash site, I knew this was something I wanted to move towards. I suffered through 2 versions of GoLive, and LiveMotion 1 and to be fair, they work. But judging by the responses on the GoLive forum, it isn't working well for a whole lot of people.
I'm glad these new versions of Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, and Flash have come out before I sunk my money into GoLive 6!
I believe you _can_ but them separately
I don't think you _have_ to buy the suite. I'm pretty sure you can just buy what you want. The suite is an enticement to go Macromedia all the way, and I have to say that it's a pretty good price for that much software.
Nice to see Macromeida making some noise.
My two cents!
Pamela Pfiffner, EIC, cp.com
MX is Awesome
The Beta was sweet, a little bit of a resource hog but this was with 64mb of ram <--self explanitory. i like how they all work together and it all fits on a 17inch monitor or a 12.1 lcd laptop screen . i say buy it if your a student like me it ran me 199 for the complete package it is worth it and better than wasting your money at the movie theater for movies coming out on dvd in 4 months