I think everybody knew it was eventually inevitable. Though the conceit in that blog post about "increasing amount of overlap" is decent PR-speak, it's really disingenuous and dances around the fact that there was always a large overlap between Fireworks and both Illustrator and Photoshop.

The big issue was whether Adobe was ever going to be really genuinely willing to address a fundamental tension:

* on one hand, Photoshop has always been a fundamentally flawed tool for screen design (I'd even go so far as to speculate that by now it's cost as much in designer and developer productivity as IE6 ever did).

* on the other hand, it's one of the biggest brands ever and its status as a verb is gives a lot to its owner

I guess today is the day they've announced the other hand wins permanently.

The sad thing is if Fireworks ever had a chance, the creative cloud setup where professionals could play with it extensively at no additional cost might have been the best setup.