In Memoriam: Adobe GoLive (1999-2008)
On Monday, Adobe finally pulled the plug on Adobe GoLive software. Originally, Adobe bought GoLive Cyber Studio in 1999 to replace its aging Adobe PageMills web editing application and to compete against Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage, but a lot has happened in the last 5 years.
In the last few years, Adobe bought Macromedia, Microsoft killed FrontPage and at the same time developed Microsoft Expression to replace FrontPage. In this midst, Adobe GoLive was lost in the shuffle and Dreamweaver pretty much kicked its butt in terms of popularity and use among web designers. In the past 10 years, I came across Adobe GoLive once, when I accidentally clicked on the GoLive icon instead of Adobe Reader. So this was long time coming, Adobe GoLive is finally dead. May it rest in peace.
