Weird, I always looked at Adobe destroying the Macromedia culture, not the other way round?<p>Look at the Flash Player Timeline <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player</a> the advances through versions 5 to 8 are spaced 18 months apart and are quite major.<p>Once Adobe took over they shortly upgraded the VM, but the next major release (10) took over 2 years. This was almost 18 months ago, and the only advancements we see really are 10.1 changes to support mobile devices... things have slowed down considerably since Macromedia became Adobe.<p>Oddly enough though I was a big user of JRun (Allaire version) before it was brought out by Macromedia. Saw this product die a horrible death once Adobe brought out Macromedia as well.