Aral Balkan

[Update] One of my readers just commented that this upgrade is for people who own both the Adobe and Macromedia bundles. "To use the web bundle upgrade you need to own Adobe Creative Suite 1.x AND Macromedia Studio MX 2004 / MX." (Thanks, Rob.) Not much of a deal, then, I guess -- oh, well. It would be great if people could upgrade to the bundle from one *or* the other and also from Studio 8. Perhaps these are just the initial bundles and there will be others to follow..?

Well, I knew this was going to happen: Adobe's UK web site is advertising the new Adobe Web Bundle -- it's a £705 + VAT upgrade (£828.37 inc. VAT) from Studio MX or Studio MX 2004 (Couldn't find any info on Upgrading from Studio 8.) On its own it's £1,409.00 + VAT (£1,655.57 inc. VAT) Haven't run the numbers yet so I don't know how great a deal this is but it sure sounds yummy at first sight!

Here's what you get:

• Adobe Photoshop® CS2
• Adobe Illustrator® CS2
• Adobe InDesign® CS2
• Adobe GoLive® CS2
• Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 Professional
• Version Cue® CS2
• Adobe Bridge
• Adobe Stock Photos

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• Dreamweaver® 8
• Flash Professional 8
• Fireworks® 8
• Contribute™ 3
• FlashPaper™ 2

More info here.

Comments

• Hello,
  This post is very misleading. To use the web bundle upgrade you need to own Adobe Creative Suite 1.x AND Macromedia Studio MX 2004 / MX. Considering the currently high google ranking for this post, I think it should be edited. Anyway, thanks for the interesting blog.
  -Rob

  by robm on 2005-12-15 09:49:37

• Hi Rob, thanks -- I just re-read the page and you're right. I could've sworn that info wasn't there before (or at least as visible.) You're right -- it's not much of a deal then. Oh well...

  by Aral Balkan on 2005-12-15 10:22:50