According to reports floating out of the Adobe Live conference in France, Adobe has announced that GoLive is going the way of the ghost. The software company purchased its main competitor, Macromedia, last year, and is now in the process of combining the best products from both companies into one application suite.
GoLive, Adobe's own WYSIWYG editor will be dropped in favor of Dreamweaver, which will be given a new interface and included in Adobe's next release of Creative Suite, due in spring of 2007. This news comes straight from Adobe's Director of European Marketing, Robert Raiola. Raiola also stated that FreeHand, a Macromedia vector-graphics application, will be removed from the application suite and continue to exist as a stand-alone product. FreeHand will receive one or two "maintenance upgrades" every year, but it will effectively be replaced by Illustrator, Adobe's vector-art application.
[graphic via Joker's Masquerade]
