Adobe Max 2006: Chief Architect Foresees Major Advances

At Adobe’s annual conference, which took place in Las Vegas at The Venetian Hotel from Oct 23-26, the company’s chief software architect declared a milestone was reached in the integration of Adobe and Macromedia forces. What does this mean?

Lots of things. Macromedia Studio and Adobe’s CS will be tied in more ways than at the time of Macro’s adoption by Adobe. There’ll be new ground to be explored in web development, media distribution, and their creation tools using existing languages of the massive blogging, podcasting, and vidcasting world. They’ll be integral in helping individuals and businesses large and small build the essential web-based tools and applications of tomorrow.

What does this come down to in real-speak. Well, for one, that staple titles like Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop and illustrator will talk to one another. There’ll be less converting and more making. Developers shouldn’t have to trouble over formats. If Adobe sticks by its word, you’ll be animating far more easily come the next versions of their packages, and odds are you’ll see your powers over your digital delights expanded, and pretty much everyone that wants to will be able to mold and manipulate their Ajax with the ease with which they’re able to tackle HTML tasks.

I’m curious to see what’s new, and I’m sure you are too. We can start to ruminate over what’s being furthered, what’s seeing its end, and what’s just beginning. Software developers churn out products year-round, but when a mainstay like Adobe starts some buzz about exciting creations in store for us soon, there’s gotta be something sweet coming our way.