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"Think of it this way, how many people get rich anymore by writing say, IDE's? None, because we all use what Microsoft, Adobe, or Eclipse gives us, for FREE" S

"Think of it this way, how many people get rich anymore by writing say, IDE's? None, because we all use what Microsoft, Adobe, or Eclipse gives us, for FREE" So how do you explain Dreamweaver's success over Frontpage?

bilbo0s 20y ago
Dreamweaver is not successful. Analyse Dreamweaver's cost/profit ratio. Remember, Dreamweaver is boxed and sold at retail. The advent of AJAX gave Dreamweaver a little more life, since to make an impressive AJAX page requires a ridiculous amount of not very well structured code. Keeping track of not very well structured code is what IDE's are good at, and what Dreamweaver's target audience is bad at. That said, as a percentage of total revenues, Dreamweaver sucks. Check it out for yourself in Adobe's latest quarterly report: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=ADBE http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=ADBE Dreamweaver sales were used to bump up the "Developer Solutions" line of the quarterly report. Notice it is a small percentage. This would not be so bad, until you notice that even the line in the quarterly report marked "Other" is bigger! Here's some free advice, do not invest in a startup that plans to make a straight IDE play.
- lupin_sansei 20y ago
  Seemed pretty successful to me: "Adobe buys Macromedia for $3.4bn" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4456895.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4456895.stm "The individual products within the Studio solution also remained solid, with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX standing as the company's largest individual product ... The MX family also continued to receive industry accolades." http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/ir/macr/news/2004/jul23_q104_results.html http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/ir/macr/news/2004/jul23_q104_results.html "to make an impressive AJAX page requires a ridiculous amount of not very well structured code" ... ", do not invest in a startup that plans to make a straight IDE play." Why wouldn't an AJAX IDE make a good investment? People would be queuing up to buy it if making impressive AJAX pages is as hard as you say it is.
  - bilbo0s 20y ago
    Because Eclipse volunteers will be giving it away for free soon.
  - bilbo0s 20y ago
    Also, do a search on Expression Studio. It can also be used to make a straight AJAX page without all of the Silverlight CLR garbage.

bilbo0s 20y ago

Dreamweaver is not successful. Analyse Dreamweaver's cost/profit ratio. Remember, Dreamweaver is boxed and sold at retail. The advent of AJAX gave Dreamweaver a little more life, since to make an impressive AJAX page requires a ridiculous amount of not very well structured code. Keeping track of not very well structured code is what IDE's are good at, and what Dreamweaver's target audience is bad at. That said, as a percentage of total revenues, Dreamweaver sucks. Check it out for yourself in Adobe's latest quarterly report: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=ADBE http://finance.yahoo.com/q/sec?s=ADBE Dreamweaver sales were used to bump up the "Developer Solutions" line of the quarterly report. Notice it is a small percentage. This would not be so bad, until you notice that even the line in the quarterly report marked "Other" is bigger! Here's some free advice, do not invest in a startup that plans to make a straight IDE play.

lupin_sansei 20y ago
Seemed pretty successful to me: "Adobe buys Macromedia for $3.4bn" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4456895.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4456895.stm "The individual products within the Studio solution also remained solid, with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX standing as the company's largest individual product ... The MX family also continued to receive industry accolades." http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/ir/macr/news/2004/jul23_q104_results.html http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/ir/macr/news/2004/jul23_q104_results.html "to make an impressive AJAX page requires a ridiculous amount of not very well structured code" ... ", do not invest in a startup that plans to make a straight IDE play." Why wouldn't an AJAX IDE make a good investment? People would be queuing up to buy it if making impressive AJAX pages is as hard as you say it is.
- bilbo0s 20y ago
  Because Eclipse volunteers will be giving it away for free soon.
- bilbo0s 20y ago
  Also, do a search on Expression Studio. It can also be used to make a straight AJAX page without all of the Silverlight CLR garbage.