Is 13 Adobes Lucky Number?
By Andy Patrizio March 27, 2007 If Adobe Systems didn’t set a record with today’s product announcements, it sure came close. The company unloaded a tidal wave of products, leveraging its 2005 $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, to release 13 new software products and six suites. The 13 new products cover pretty much every major application from both Adobe and Macromedia, such as Photoshop, Flash, DreamWeaver, After Effects, Premier and Illustrator. Adobe worked at integration between almost everything in its product line, so all of the products talk to each other. For example, importing Flash images to Photoshop for image editing used to be a very difficult task, but now that has been greatly simplified. “We used to release them independent of each other,” Caleb Belohlavek, director of the creative solutions group at Adobe told internetnews.com. “What we found is building them together and leveraging core technologies at the same time has brought a higher degree of integration than
