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After yesterday's announcement from Adobe, we are starting to look for an alternative to Illustrator and Photoshop.
Any software companies out there right now that can fill the void? Seems there is a tremendous opportunity for a company to develop something remotely similar.
BTW: Adobe should not have been allowed to buy Macromedia.
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GIMP is close(and free), but depending on what you do, there may be things that it can't do that Photoshop does do. I don't have any suggestions for Illustrator though.
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Well, that depends on what you use them for? What is it that use Photoshop for? Simple color correction? Or complex collages, layers and text treatments? Same with illustrator... complex CAD renderings? or?
And Im sure the versions you have now should work for a long while, or if you have an older version, now is the time to buy CS6 discs...
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We have CS6 and expect it to work at least for a couple more OS updates. I think we have 3-4 years before we need to make the switch. But, I'm starting to look now.
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I missed the Adobe announcement. :dunno:
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An interesting (I hope!) aside:
In late 2003 I interviewed for a Product Marketing position at Adobe's headquarters in San Jose. In Round One I was interviewed by a large group (maybe 10 people) in the Marketing department, was asked a lot of questions as to how I would handle theoretical issues relating to marketing (e.g, "Should new products/updates contain the year of the release in the name, such as CS 2004, or should they be numbered sequentially, as in CS 2?").
I felt confident answering the questions and it seemed to go well, enough that I made it to the next round of interviews.
In Round Two I interviewed one-on-one with a vice president of Marketing. She asked me several questions about long-term marketing trends, and I explained why I thought Software as a Service (SaaS) was the coming thing and how it made a lot of sense for Adobe. It guarantees a much steadier revenue stream than boxed software, which gives customers too much discretion as to when they will spend money on an upgrade. I went on about this topic for a few more minutes.
And then I realized she was looking at me like I was crazy. After I left the interview I knew I had blown it and sure enough, I never heard from Adobe again.
P.S.
The Adobe employees that grilled me in the group interview were some of the unhappiest people I had seen in quite a while. So maybe I dodged a bullet there...
