The Demise of Go Live
If you’ve ever stopped to read the disclaimers on the front page of this website, then you know that I maintain it and have maintained it for many years with the help of Adobe Go Live. I’m personally big into integration when it comes to computing, so Go Live was attractive to me because of its integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, and In Design, products I was already using, not to mention its slant toward print designers rather than web programmers.
This week Adobe announced that Go Live will be no longer supported. It’s the end of the line for that product, something I’ve been expecting for a while, ever since Adobe acquired Macromedia and Dreamweaver. I suspected Adobe’s assurances that Go Live would be supported were half-truths and it would only be supported through the version 9 release and then dropped in favor of Dreamweaver. Looks like I was right.
To their credit, Adobe is offering a $199 upgrade path to Dreamweaver CS3 for registered Go Live users (and I haven’t registered my copy so I just might now), though I’m not sure I’m going to pursue it. Frankly, I have never pushed Go Live to the limits of its capabilities and probably will not upgrade my CS3 applications anytime soon, so I’m no hurry to move. What does make me think about stepping over to Dreamweaver is the lack of documentation surrounding Go Live and the plethora that’s available concerning Dreamweaver. It saves me a lot of time when learning an application to have some good books around.
I need an application what will let me do what I need to with a minimum of hassle, including hand-coding. I realize that the latter is purer and less bloated, but time is the one thing I’m short of, and hand-coding does take time. From what I’ve heard of Dreamweaver, I’m just not convinced I’ll buy anything by moving to it, either. I will take some time, though, to evaluate my options; but my first choice would be to spend that time on learning Go Live 9 better and spend the money I’d use on the Dreamweaver crossover on something else.
Perhaps the biggest thing about this shift is how computing seems to be going full-circle with respect to its relationships with respect to prosumers and professionals. When the GUI revolution was beginning, the trend was to take the land that had only been in the hand of the professionals and redistribute it to the everyday consumer. For the last few years, though, that trend has been reversing. There is an ever-growing gap between software for the consumer and prosumer and that for the professional as evidenced by the ever-growing propensity to bundle high-powered applications and drive prices up out of reach of the average consumer.
The demise of Go Live is just one more piece of evidence of that philosophical switch.
I’m not really sure this is a good thing.
This week Adobe announced that Go Live will be no longer supported. It’s the end of the line for that product, something I’ve been expecting for a while, ever since Adobe acquired Macromedia and Dreamweaver. I suspected Adobe’s assurances that Go Live would be supported were half-truths and it would only be supported through the version 9 release and then dropped in favor of Dreamweaver. Looks like I was right.
To their credit, Adobe is offering a $199 upgrade path to Dreamweaver CS3 for registered Go Live users (and I haven’t registered my copy so I just might now), though I’m not sure I’m going to pursue it. Frankly, I have never pushed Go Live to the limits of its capabilities and probably will not upgrade my CS3 applications anytime soon, so I’m no hurry to move. What does make me think about stepping over to Dreamweaver is the lack of documentation surrounding Go Live and the plethora that’s available concerning Dreamweaver. It saves me a lot of time when learning an application to have some good books around.
I need an application what will let me do what I need to with a minimum of hassle, including hand-coding. I realize that the latter is purer and less bloated, but time is the one thing I’m short of, and hand-coding does take time. From what I’ve heard of Dreamweaver, I’m just not convinced I’ll buy anything by moving to it, either. I will take some time, though, to evaluate my options; but my first choice would be to spend that time on learning Go Live 9 better and spend the money I’d use on the Dreamweaver crossover on something else.
Perhaps the biggest thing about this shift is how computing seems to be going full-circle with respect to its relationships with respect to prosumers and professionals. When the GUI revolution was beginning, the trend was to take the land that had only been in the hand of the professionals and redistribute it to the everyday consumer. For the last few years, though, that trend has been reversing. There is an ever-growing gap between software for the consumer and prosumer and that for the professional as evidenced by the ever-growing propensity to bundle high-powered applications and drive prices up out of reach of the average consumer.
The demise of Go Live is just one more piece of evidence of that philosophical switch.
I’m not really sure this is a good thing.
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