Macromedia continued on the Thousand&A trail and in December 1999 it acquired traffic analysis software company [http://www.idgvusa.com/portfolio/andromedia.html Andromedia]. Web development company Allaire was acquired in 2001, & Macromedia added many popular server & Web development products to their portfolio including [http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion ColdFusion] and [http://www.macromedia.com/software/jrun JRun].

Within 2003, Macromedia acquired Web conferencing company [http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/presedia Presedia] & continues to evolve & enhance their Flash player-depending low collaboration and presentation product offering under a brand Breeze. Late that month, Macromedia besides acquired support authoring software program company [http://web.archive.org/web/20040711031939/http://www.ehelp.com/ eHelp Corporation], whose products involved RoboHelp, RoboDemo (Now Captivate), and RoboInfo.

In April 18 2005 Adobe Systems announced an agreement to acquire Macromedithe within a equity swop valued at all about $3.Four billion on a endure swing trading day prior to the announcement.

[http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html Macromedia Press Release] [http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html Adobe Press Release] [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Adobe_to_Purchase_Macromedia_for_%243.4_Billion Wikinews article]

Products
Macromedia Studio - A complete toolset (Dreamweaver, Flash player Broker, Pyrotechnic, Contribute & FlashPaper) Macromedia Flash - An animation tool for rich web content Macromedia Dreamweaver - An HTML editor, with two visual & code support Macromedia Breeze - A web conferencing tool Macromedia Flex - A web application builder Macromedia ColdFusion - A web server that serves moral force ".cfm" content. Similar to ASP & PHP Macromedia Director - A multimedia system authoring program Macromedia Authorware - A ocular authoring convienence for creating e-learning applications Macromedia FreeHand - A vector graphics editor Macromedia Fireworks - A graphics editor Macromedia Contribute - A elementary ocular HTML editor for prevent user web site maintenance Macromedia Robohelp - A thing to build aid systems Macromedia Captivate - Formerly Robodemo, a screen recording device that creates interactional demos Macromedia Shockwave - A media streaming video player that plays content mass produced around Macromedia Director Macromedia JRun - A J2EE server Macromedia Flash Communication Server - A server platform for Flash player development Macromedia HomeSite - A code depending HTML editor Macromedia FlashPaper - A convienence that turns documents to FlashPaper or even PDF Macromedia Fontographer - Type authoring computer software, today sold by [http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/Fontographer/ Fontlab] Macromedia Central - A crossplatform Flash player application platform Macromedia FlashCast - A Flash player platform for wandering devices Macromedia Web Publishing System - A complete software package suite for building & running off web pages

For the first of Macromedia please look to Adobe Systems for more tools just about a freshly structures of Adobe/Macromedia.