 gProject Acquired By Adobe!Posted on May 1, 2008 by Grant SkinnerWe’ve been getting lots of questions about why gProject has not been updated to support ActionScript 3. Until now I have not been in a position to respond appropriately, but today I’m happy to announce that Adobe acquired gProject late last year. Since then, we have been working with the Flash team to completely overhaul the panel for AS3, add new functionality, and significantly improve the interface. As a result of the Adobe acquisition, we will no longer be developing gProject and have deprioritized our support for gProject as a product. We will continue to offer gProject for Flash 8 and CS3 for the immediate future, but it will not be updated further. The product page for gProject and panel pack will be updated immediately to reflect this. If you purchased gProject in the past 3 months, and have any concerns, please contact us through our support form.
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16 Comments
Congrats Grant!
Posted by: Kenny Bunch on May 1, 2008 2:03pm URL: http://www.kennybunch.com
Great news! I can't wait to see what becomes of it.
Posted by: Josh Tynjala on May 1, 2008 2:24pm URL: http://www.zeuslabs.us/
Congrats to you and your team. Very exciting news.
Posted by: Chuck Freedman on May 1, 2008 3:38pm URL: http://chuckstar.com/blog
That's great news! If Adobe acquired you, then they must be one step closer to acquiring me! (Any day now, the Flash snake on my homepage will be the biggest rave.)
Posted by: Harry B. Garland on May 1, 2008 3:45pm URL: http://www.hgarland.com
Awesome! Was that products site always there? First time I've seen it. There's some handy code in there. You should add it to the navigation at the top of your blog.
Posted by: Sean Voisen on May 1, 2008 3:47pm URL: http://voisen.org
Congrats!
Posted by: 5566 on May 1, 2008 9:20pm URL: http://www.shang-liang.com
Big contracts! Keep up the great work.
Posted by: John C. Bland II on May 1, 2008 10:07pm URL: http://www.johncblandii.com
This is great news! I look forward to the free CS3 upgrade... RIGHT? :-P
Posted by: Rezmason on May 2, 2008 1:57am
Congrats to the you guys, thats very exciting. Next is gmodeler?
Posted by: Jerry Chabolla on May 5, 2008 10:34am
Congrats Grant and everyone else who's put effort into this nice little application. It's great to see Adobe showing this type of support/integration with the Flash community!
Posted by: Kevin Sweeney on May 5, 2008 6:56pm
Any chance they might acquire gModeler as well? :) I've been waiting for Saffron or some other good Flash-centric UML tool that supports AS3 to be released and have yet to find one. gModeler is a really fantastic app I'd love to see an update for. I've even pay for it!
Posted by: Chris Griffith on May 7, 2008 12:55pm URL: http://www.blockdot.com
Congratulations Grant ;)
Chris, Regarding Gmodeler:
You should check about Sparx System Enterprise Architect 7.1 (improved as3 engineering compared to 7.0), there's also Enterprise Architect MDG Eclipse integration plugin to go further with sync between model and code in Eclipse projects. They are currently working on further integration of Flex.
It is an amazing product, that supports code engineering (forward and backward). I've been using it for months, I think it should be part of every Flash/Flex developer toolbox.
It is free to test for 30 days and easy to setup. Please beware that you should use the professional edition at least to use code engineering features.
Best regards.
Posted by: Cedric M. (aka maddec) on May 8, 2008 10:27am URL: http://analogdesign.ch/blog
congrats Grant!! that's awesome news. nice work. let's have a celebratory pint next we find ourselves in the same area code!
Posted by: Andre Charland on May 12, 2008 5:04pm URL: http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre
congratulations!!
Posted by: TheAfricanNerd on May 19, 2008 9:20am URL: http://www.theafricannerd.com
Ah, the memories. That was one of my last acts as Flash Product Manager. I'm so glad to see it finally wrap up so we can release it to our customers.
And to clarify based on one of the comments, no, we did not acquire Grant's company - just gProject. It's too cold in Edmonton for an Adobe office. ;)
Posted by: Mike Downey on May 19, 2008 4:10pm URL: http://madowney.com/blog
Is there any new news on the Adobe version of gProject? Will there be an extension or do we have to wait until Flash CS4?
Posted by: Nicolas on Aug 12, 2008 12:56am URL: http://stoletheshow.com