Adobe CS3 ships next month
p2pnet.net news:- Adobe Systems’ Creative Suite 3 (CS3) aimed at print designers, multimedia editors and web designers, is now out in six editions.
Estimated price for CS3 Design Standard is $1,200 and for the Premium version, $1,800, says ZDNet UK.
Web editions $1,000 or $1,600, and the CS3 Production Premium is $1,700.
And the Master Collection, “the most comprehensive package,” is $2,500, says the story.
“It’s kind of like the Super Bowl,” the Mercury News has Adobe’s John Loiacono saying. “It’s our largest product launch in 25 years of business.”
And Creative Suite has several competitors, observes the story, continuing, “As Adobe expands in video software and publishing on Apple’s Mac operating system, it competes with Apple’s own video products, including Final Cut Pro and iLife. On Windows, Microsoft plans to release Expression Studio, a lower-cost competitor to many Adobe design and development products, during the second quarter.”
And, “Microsoft is very scrappy,” it has Trip Chowdhry, managing director at Global Equities Research, stating, “they can freeze the market if they say that it’s coming, and it’s coming at half the price of Adobe’s products.”
The Design and Web editions will start shipping next month, while the Production Premium and Master Collection editions will ship this summer, says ZDNet, quoting Loiacono.
People can also buy individual applications, such as Photoshop, Illustrator or Flash.
Also See:
ZDNet UK – Adobe launches revamped Creative Suite, March 27, 2007
Mercury News – Adobe’s big multimedia software introduction, March 27, 2007
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March 27th, 2007 at 8:34 am
I use GIMP for windows at no cost whatever. Why would I want to spend that kind of money for an image editing program when I can get similar for free?
March 27th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Yeh, I use GIMP too. Its good.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:47 am
GIMP is good. So is paint.net, but comparing GIMP to CS3 is not a valid comparison. Maybe, just maybe you can compare GIMP to Photoshop, but Photoshop is just one component of CS3. I’m not defending Adobe’s pricing or slamming GIMP. Just my observation.
BTW paint.net really is good. Requires MS .NET framework install.
http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html
March 28th, 2007 at 3:26 am
…And as always it will be available for 0$ on any BitTorrent site. Piracy rulez
Though, I prefer Corel PhotoPaint – it is a bit less powerfull, but more easy to use.
March 31st, 2007 at 5:46 am
I was so happy when Adobe announced the launch of their new CS3 line of products!
With new products comes new pricing… fair enough. However, prices for the same product (i.e. the mac design upgrade from CS2) go from 599$ for an upgrade in the US to 880$ in Switzerland, the worse being 1′380 $ for the UK or France… not fair enough!
Prices in Europe have always been a little higher, but 230% is pushing it!
I have started a [URL="http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/fair-pricing-for-european-software.html"]petition[/URL] to ask for fair pricing. Once I have gathered enough signatures, I will communicate this petition to Adobe and to the European/Swiss commissions of competition.
For a comparison, please checkout this website: [URL="http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe.html"]http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe.html[/URL]
In the meantime, if you can, don’t purchase the upgrade, it’s the best pressure we can have…
Thanks for helping us get heard!