Re: Homesite (was RE: DreamWeaver 3.0 vs. DreamWeaver 4.0)

lol, far from free.  More like, You've got Dreamweaver, and then Ultradev is
the souped up version of Dreamweaver at the heftier fee.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Higgs" <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
To: "Raymond Mosley" <rmosley(at)sprynet.com>; "Lisa"
<nstar92(at)bellatlantic.net>; <allred(at)its.state.ms.us>;
<hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: Homesite (was RE: DreamWeaver 3.0 vs. DreamWeaver 4.0)


> G'Day Ray,
>
> At 03:28 pm 24/01/01 -0500, Raymond Mosley wrote:
> >> Now that the merger between the two companies has been
> >> announced, I would expect Macromedia to be even more
> >> supportive of Homesite.
> >
> >Well, I hope so, but why would they? I'm betting they're going to let
> >Homesite whither in order to push Dreamweaver.
>
> They also took over "DrumBeat" - and released it as "UltraDev" - free with
> the current release of DW judging from the reports here.  Macromedia are
> pretty smart at their takeovers - they have their own "larger picture" in
> mind and are doing a GREAT job of recognising that web design is now
bigger
> than a single person.  They are building tools to suit different
> professions, yet which interact (BIG use of "style sheets" and
"templates").
>
> Homesite may be relabled, but it won't die.
>
> Now for the strict Homesite users, they MAY have a problem, esp if it is
> released ONLY as part of Dreamweaver, although I don't think they'd be
> stupid enough to do that.
>
> Chris
>
>

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