Why does Macromedia intend to acquire Elemental Software?
Macromedia and Elemental Software share a common vision of creating new products that enable Web professionals to create powerful Web applications that meet the requirements for e-commerce, corporate intranets, and other dynamically generated sites. The existing Drumbeat product line supports ASP and JSP. The next generation of dynamic Web publishing software, to be developed by the new engineering team made up of Elemental and Macromedia engineers, will be extensible to support multiple server solutions.