Details - InterAKT Site :: Reading between the lines

Hi all

Now as all the shock and confusion about the Adobe aquisition has settled, at least for me, I've tried to interprete the situation. I'm not sure, if my thoughts hit the point, but maybe some people from Interakt could just say "Yes or No" to some of the following.

1. The new Kollection contains a whole bunch of the most important former Interakt products.
   If this bundle will be sold separately, my worst expectations won't come true as especially KTML, CSS Menues, Includes, Nextensio and Query Builder will be futher developed, maintained and available in the future. However, existing owners of the Interakt MX Kollection should get a special upgrade offer for the next version.
2. Concerning the discontinued products: All the "Spring Packs" and "Mega Packs" don't really matter. They only contained bundles of stand alone extensions.
3. Concerning the discontinued products, such as AJAX Toolbox, Navigation Pack, Calendar, Dynamic Table Sorter (commercial) and Tree Menu, KTML Lite, Breadcrumbs (Which were free, so that's nothing to complain), maybe they make it into Dreamweaver, somehow. So just wait and see what the new DW 9 (??) might bring.
   If the AJAX Toolbox is really discontinued and not integrated into Spry or whatever product, well, that would be a shame ;-(
4. The Kart and Kommerce products could also (hopefully) get integrated into a new Adobe product. Has anyone tried the Flex Shop Demo?
   http://www.templatesoft.com/
   http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/flexstore/flexstore.html
   http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/hybridstore/hybridstore.html
   
   This is what MX Kommerce 4 could have become. Dragging items into the shopping cart, ordering products...
   Of course using AJAX instead of Flash.

I can see a small light on the horizon. Maybe we should all be a little more optimistic. If "our" Interakt guys stay on stage and keep up their fantastic support (maybe not within hours like it was now, but at least within a day or two), we could live with that.
To be honest, one thing that has sometimes been annoying was the high frequency, products were updated or patched due to "minor bugs". Downloading and installing the extensions, sometimes twice a week or even more, was consuming much of my time. This would be gone, if Adobe releases more stable products, which they have to, because of their reputaion.
Interakt did not have to do that because they could always rely on their loyal community and feedback in the forums and beta groups.
Many of us would not blame Interakt for these "minor bugs", as there was always help around.
But many more of us will blame Adobe, if they paid for an unstable product. why do I say "many more"? Well,  quite simple, because the ( Interakt) products will now see many more users in a broader market, that Adobe as a big company has. 

I am looking forward to hear your opinions.

Willi

Thanks for the post... I purchased templates from templatesoft.com. Templates are professionally designed. Easy to use shopping cart. They could use a nice logo :)...