Macromedia Office 2004 = $1,000

[exasko]

Ahh! That is absurd, who in there right mind can afford that?

[robc]

A design firm :)

[exasko]

But holy sh*t... I am never going to look at $200 software and say woah thats over priced... not anymore atleast

[Adam]

I used to look at programs for £25 and go "****, im not paying for that". But it goes with the business i guess as i just purchased a £1,000+ Sage financing solution.

If you wuold have asked me last month if i would pay that much i'd say no - but when you realise it cuts costs in your business over a period of time then it becomes increasingly more attractive.

[exasko]

I understand how a company will feel more likly to dish out the money.. but a person who just into design.. just blows my mind. Even the unpro verision is $900... heck why mise well go for the pro.. ya know?

[robc]

Well in all honesty the whole wide range of these products right now might just be worth it, remember some 3d software can set u back as much as $3000, Maya for instance...

[exasko]

WOW!!!!!








Geez... no wonder why so many people download software off KazaA, 3,000.. YIKES, I am speachless

[tranz]

Try video software.

Discreet products are the top in the industry. They are also the most expensive.

Discreet "Flint" $80,000
Discreet "Flame" $90,000 - $110,000
Discreet "Inferno" $60,000

These all run on HUGE beefy MIPS machines with huge amounts of ram, huge SAN storage arrays and multi processor systems.

A company called Quantel from the UK.

There work stations start at $1.2M US and go up from there.

So, when you think about it $1k for a full suite of software isnt that bad.

[robc]

Yeah imagine what the matrix had to spend on computer software or starwars or any high tech movie

[tranz]

Most of the software ILM, Dreamworks SKG ect already had. What they will do is have a progaming dept write custom shaders, maps ect or extend the functionality of the core app.

[Adam]

Very true.

[robc]

MX2004 doesnt include ColdFusion does it

[exasko]

I thought I saw it say it does... but maybe not

[Adam]

I'm not so sure on this.

[robc]

I just looked it up and it says that ColdFusion is included, and it seems the MX2004 professional is just MX2004 with flash professional.

[exasko]

I am stickin with Flash MX and Notepad lol

[robc]

Notepad rocks!

[Operator]

Well if you are a student Studio MX only costs $179!

http://www.campustech.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/index.html?E+scstore

[Simon]

It is a very good product, and worth every cent of the $999 it costs.

Macromedia excelled themselves with this release, and they earned their money ten fold.

Note it actually costs $974 fully shipped, securely, if you where notified of it's release 4 month's ago, and pre-ordered

[bradley]

I just got mine copy of MX 2004 Pro last week. Hopefully I'll find time this week to install it. :)

[EasyNetwork]

Originally posted by robc:

MX2004 doesnt include ColdFusion does it


Yes it does:

Flash MX 2004
Fireworks MX 2004
Fireworks MX 2004
Freehand MX 2004
ColdFusion MX 6.1 DE

[robc]

Originally posted by EasyNetwork:

Yes it does:

Flash MX 2004
Fireworks MX 2004
Fireworks MX 2004
Freehand MX 2004
ColdFusion MX 6.1 DE

Yeah about 2 or 3 posts later i corrected myself :)

[exasko]

I am sticking with MX Studio

[Robert]

Ok so it includes ColdFusion, but not many hosts support it. It's so expensive.

[Robert]

Ok so it includes ColdFusion, but not many hosts support it. It's so expensive.

[exasko]

you repeated yourself? :confused:

[EasyNetwork]

double post.. exasko