Yesterday Adobe CS3 was announced. GoLive was nowhere to be found. I’ve been a GoLive user since 1999. This very site was designed with GoLive. My brother was a big GoLive fan dating back to 1998. However, I spent many a numerous nights fighting with GoLive’s component feature. Stupid thing was so buggy.
UPDATE: 3/29/06
With the release of CS3, I thought Adobe killed GoLive. However, JB brought to my attention that GoLive 9 will be released in Spring 2007. It’s simply not a part of CS3.
GoLive isn’t dead, but it’s good as dead now. GoLive went into a coma when Adobe bought Macromedia. Now that Dreamweaver is in CS3 and GoLive isn’t, I’d say that Adobe has moved GoLive out of the hospital and into the middle of an abandoned desert. The only thing running GoLive’s life support is an old car battery. It’s only a matter of time now.
The original text to the obituary is in the comments section.
Wow. I suspected this would happen. However, I am a Dreamweaver user, so I’m just glad that GoLive got the boot instead. What will you do now, moose? Learn Dreamweaver? Luckily it’s very user-friendly. 😉
text from GoLive obit: Born: 1996Died: March 27, 2007Cause of death: Dreamweaver Adobe GoLive historyAdobe GoLive began its life in 1996 as gonet GoLive Pro. It required a Power Macintosh running OS 7.5 or later with a minimum of 4 MB free memory for the 68k version and 5 MB free for the PPC version. gonet changed its name in 1997 to GoLive Systems and GoLive Pro was changed to CyberStudio resulting in “GoLive CyberStudio”. Their tagline was The best way to design a Web site. On January 4, 1999, Adobe purchased GoLive Systems when Cyberstudio was at version 3.01.… Read more »
Thanks for the link, JB. The body copy on that links says that there will be a version 9 released in spring 2007. The current version of GoLive is CS2, version 8.
I will have to adjust my GoLive splash screen image.
Born: 1996Death: soon (GoLive is experiencing a slow and painful death)Cause of death: Dreamweaver Adobe GoLive began its life in 1996 as gonet GoLive Pro. It required a Power Macintosh running OS 7.5 or later with a minimum of 4 MB free memory for the 68k version and 5 MB free for the PPC version. gonet changed its name in 1997 to GoLive Systems and GoLive Pro was changed to CyberStudio resulting in “GoLive CyberStudio”. Their tagline was The best way to design a Web site. On January 4, 1999, Adobe purchased GoLive Systems when Cyberstudio was at version 3.01.… Read more »
I got CS3 on my computer at work today. No GoLive there, but it does include Dreamweaver CS3, Fireworks CS3, and Flash CS3. So far I’ve used Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver. They all work great. And no backward compatibility issues, like there were between CS and CS2.