Macromedia
Macromedia is a graphics and web development software house, whose current products include the vector drawing application FreeHand, web graphics creator Fireworks, vector animation applications Flash and Shockwave, multimedia authoring application Director, web application server environment ColdFusion and the visual web development application Dreamweaver. Macromedia's main rival is graphics and publishing software company Adobe Systems.
In 2001, Macromedia bought the web development company Allaire and added some Web development software to their products. These products include the HTML editor Homesite, the Java application server JRun and ColdFusion.