Editing Macromedia (section)

===Other acquisitions===
[[Image:Macromedia original logo.svg|thumb|200px|Macromedia logo used until 1997]]
In July 1999, Macromedia acquired Elemental Software, gaining control of Drumbeat 2000 and eStore Builder.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=1999-07-15 |title=Purchase for Macromedia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/15/business/purchase-for-macromedia.html |access-date=2025-01-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The company also bought web site monitoring and personalization software developer Andromedia for $245 million that December to expand into e-commerce. It further inked alliances with web consulting and marketing services firm [[USWeb|USWeb/CKS]] and e-commerce platform developer [[Broadvision]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=October 7, 1999 |title=Macromedia hums the e-business tune |url=https://www.forbes.com/1999/10/07/mu3.html |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>

Web development company [[Allaire Corporation|Allaire]] was acquired in 2001 and Macromedia added several popular servers and Web developments tools to its portfolio, including [[Adobe ColdFusion|ColdFusion]], a web application server based on the CFML language, [[Macromedia JRun|JRun]], a [[Java EE]] application server, and [[Macromedia HomeSite|HomeSite]], an HTML code editor that was also bundled with Dreamweaver. By 2002, Macromedia had produced more than 20 products and had 30 offices in 13 countries.<ref name="FU2">{{cite web |title=Macromedia Company History |url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Macromedia-Inc-Company-History.html |access-date=February 17, 2011}}</ref>

In 2003, Macromedia acquired the web conferencing company Presedia and continued to develop and enhance their Flash-based online collaboration and presentation product offering under the brand [[Macromedia Breeze|Breeze]]. Later that year, Macromedia also acquired help authoring software company [[eHelp Corporation]], whose products included [[RoboHelp]] and RoboDemo (now [[Adobe Captivate]]).