Macromedia is a graphics and web development software house, whose most widely known products are the rich web content creation application Flash and the visual web development application Dreamweaver. Among other products are the vector drawing application FreeHand, web graphics creator Fireworks, multimedia authoring application Director, web application server environments ColdFusion, type authoring application Fontographer , rich web communication software Breeze, Flash Communication server, end-user website software Contribute, and web application builder Flex. Macromedia's main rival is graphics and publishing software company Adobe Systems.

Macromedia headquarters are in San Francisco, California.

In 2001, Macromedia bought the web development company Allaire and added some Web development software to their products. These products include the HTML editor HomeSite, the Java application server JRun and ColdFusion.

In 2003, Macromedia acquired help authoring software company eHelp Corporation, whose products include RoboHelp, RoboDemo, and RoboInfo.

External link

• Macromedia website