As one of the first 100 on the Behance platform, I think this is a fantastic acquisition for both sides. When a large corporation acquires a company you love there is often concern, but seeing how the Adobe + Typekit relationship played out I'm expecting great things.
Or Adobe + Phonegap. Adobe seems to do acquisitions pretty well.
I think they have a pretty solid plan. They understand ecosystems, such as why they developed multiple types of desktop software to cater to different needs in/for the creative community.
or adobe + photoshop, adobe + illustrator, adobe + basically any product you can name.
let's not talk about the macromedia acquisition, though.
It transitioned people to using the same suite of products, which I think is huge for the creative industry at large; particularly with making it easier to transfer files from person to person for collaboration, delivery, etc.. Remember when some designers used Photoshop, some Fireworks, and some Corel Draw?
Fireworks was/ is for vector based graphics. That is a different use case from photoshop.
Fireworks a hybrid between vector and raster. It's for web/interface design, which has plenty of overlap with Photoshop.
This is great for Behance and Adobe both, I think. Adobe has immensely powerful capabilities and Behance has a great network of creatives. Combined they could go far (I hope).
It's good to see a company in my same industry make it this far.
Haven't used Behance for quite a while, but it would be awesome if it got integrated into Creative Suite (think Kuler). Great news & congratulations all involved.
I'm hoping the acquisition will mean more rapid development of ActionMethod, a beautiful product with some good ideas that just hasn't kept up.
Have you checked out Trello? I haven't used Action Method in several years so I can't quite remember the details, but on the surface at least they look fairly similar.
I am a heavy Trello user. I would say it, Asana, new Basecamp and Flow have pieces of ActionMethod in them.
This is a great move! I hope Adobe doesn't mess it up, its an entire community they've acquired. With power comes responsibility and hope they wont use it to monopolize the design industry altogether.