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At work the other day, one of my co-workers and I were discussing Adobe’s acquisition of Scene 7. We began looking around at Adobe’s web site and realized that they have a ton of products now.

Neither of us were sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Adobe is obviously the vendor of choice for all of my graphics and interactive development applications. Well, most of them anyway. So if I want anybody to purchase or develop new applications to benefit me, I want it to be them. The three vendors I really trust are Adobe, Apple and Google. Personally, I like Google the best because most of their stuff is free. The only thing better than free food is free computer applications… right?

Our shared fear is that Adobe may be taking on too much and potentially lose focus. Follow the link above and check out everything they have now. They have more applications than ever before and I honestly don’t even know what many of them do. Ultimately, as long as they are able to keep focus and budget where I need it, things will be fine. It should lead to more and more power to the necessity applications, like Photoshop and Flash.

This could lead to less applications and just ultra powerful tools for us interactive folks. Even with Scene7 potentially being added to Photoshop, Flash and, I hate to mention it, Dreamweaver. If this is their plan, acquire strong applications, build them into their current set and then charge us more, I will be very happy and shell out the extra dough. I would rather pay a ton for one all-inclusive application than have to jump between all these different apps.

Stay tuned to Adobe over the next few years… It will sure be interesting to see what they do.