13 Facts About Macromedia

Macromedia, Inc, was an American graphics, multimedia, and web development software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that made products such as Flash and Dreamweaver.

Macromedia originated in the 1992 merger of Authorware Inc and MacroMind–Paracomp .

In January 1995, Macromedia acquired Altsys Corporation after Adobe Systems announced a merger with Altsys' business partner, the Aldus Corporation.

In March 1996, Macromedia acquired iBand Software, makers of the Backstage HTML authoring tool and application server.

Macromedia developed a new HTML-authoring tool, Dreamweaver, around portions of the Backstage codebase and released the first version in 1997.

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Macromedia acquired FutureWave Software, makers of FutureSplash Animator, in November 1996.

Macromedia renamed Splash to Macromedia Flash, and following the lead of Netscape, distributed the Flash Player as a free browser plugin in order to quickly gain market share.

In December 1999, Macromedia acquired traffic analysis software company Andromedia Corporation.

Web development company Allaire was acquired in 2001 and Macromedia added several popular servers and Web developments tools to its portfolio, including ColdFusion, a web application server based on the CFML language, JRun, a Java EE application server, and HomeSite, an HTML code editor that was bundled with Dreamweaver.

In 2003, Macromedia acquired the web conferencing company Presedia and continued to develop and enhance their Flash-based online collaboration and presentation product offering under the brand Breeze.

Later that year, Macromedia acquired help authoring software company eHelp Corporation, whose products included RoboHelp and RoboDemo .

Macromedia countered with a claim that Adobe infringed on Macromedia's patents for a draw-based editor for Web pages and a hierarchical structure editor for Web sites.

In July 2002, Adobe and Macromedia reached an agreement that settled all claims in this series of patent suits.