Updated: Adobe discontinues GoLive to concentrate on Dreamweaver
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Apr 28, 2008 at 4:18pm
Adobe is discontinuing its GoLive web creation tool to focus on its other web creation, tool, Dreamweaver, Devin Fernandez, GoLive’s product manager, told Macsimum News. The move has been expected for some time. GoLive will be removed from the Adobe store as of 5 pm (Pacific) today (Monday, April 28).
“Adobe acquired GoLive in 1999 from GoLive CyberStudio,” Fernandez says. “As time wore on, a lot of creative pros become more experienced and their skill set at web design improved. At Abode we recognized that lots of GoLive users were starting to graduate to DreamWeaver.”
In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and its high end web development tool, Dreamweaver. GoLive was replaced by Dreamweaver in Creative Suite 3.
“In same time frame as were were launching Creative Suite 3, I was working on GoLive 9,” Fernandez says. “The target was a community of non-coding designers. But even after the version 9 update, we continued to see a migration of GoLive users to Dreaamweaver.”
Adobe is offering an US$199 upgrade price for GoLive users to switch to Dreamweaver, which is about a $200 savings off the street price of Dreamweaver. The company will also be offering tech resources—such as video tutorials and a GoLive extension—to help with the switch. The company will continue phone tech support for GoLive through October.
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Jason Says:
GoLive was the better web builder before Adobe got it. Adobe bought it because they did not know how to do the web game and refused to continue to innovate GoLive because quite frankly, their management did not seem to know how to. It was one of the first types of programs Adobe just could not get a handle on. Dreamweaver is for code junkies, whereas GoLive was for designers. So, Adobe puts Dreamweaver in the CS3 suite and expects GoLive 9 to sell like hot cakes. Bloody brilliant, Adobe.
Posted on April 28, 2008