"Dreamweaver has long been known as the standard in visual authoring and now, with Dreamweaver MX, we are extending its leadership to powerful coding and application development," said Kevin Lynch, chief software architect, Macromedia. "Dreamweaver MX offers increased ease-of-use and productivity through strong cross-product integration across the MX family including ColdFusion MX; great support for the Microsoft .NET Framework and Java technology; and continued leading support for industry standards such as XHTML. It is the natural choice for web professionals."

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX is part of the new MX product family, including Macromedia Flash MX, Macromedia ColdFusion MX (see separate release), and Macromedia Fireworks MX (see separate release). Macromedia MX products deliver rich Internet applications across leading platforms and devices. The new tools share a consistent workspace and increased support for accessibility and usability. Macromedia Studio MX (see separate release) includes Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia Flash MX, Macromedia FreeHand 10, Macromedia Fireworks MX, and a developer edition of Macromedia ColdFusion MX.

Since its debut in December 1997, Macromedia Dreamweaver has become the industry standard for professional web development. Dreamweaver currently holds approximately 80 percent of the professional web development tool market, according to NPD Intelect's February 2002 retail sales report, and more than 2.4 million web professionals rely on Dreamweaver products for web development. Due to its extensible nature, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX has already been embraced by industry leaders (see quote sheet).

"Macromedia Dreamweaver MX provides an approachable and productive environment for users ranging from beginning web authors to experienced application developers," said Kathy Quirk, senior analyst, Hurwitz Group. "The Dreamweaver environment's support for multiple server models and XML, combined with its open architecture foundation, enables Dreamweaver to integrate with leading solutions and technologies."

Dreamweaver MX combines ease and power in one integrated development environment for ColdFusion, HTML, XHTML, ASP, Microsoft ASP.NET, JSP, and PHP websites. The product enables complete control over code and design with precision layout tools and high-powered coding features like code hints, tag editors, extensible color coding, tag choosers, snippets, and code validation. The new integrated workspace, shared with Macromedia Flash MX and Fireworks MX, includes tabbed document windows, dockable panel groups, customizable toolbars, and integrated file browsing. Also, for the first time, Dreamweaver includes professional-quality, pre-built layouts and code, including site structures, forms, accessible templates, and JavaScript functions for client-side interactivity.

Dreamweaver MX unlocks the benefits of emerging standards and new web technologies with support for XML, web services, and extensive accessibility compliance to retrofit existing sites and build next-generation applications. Dreamweaver MX offers complete support for ColdFusion MX features including enhanced code editing and development capabilities, integrated debugging, and powerful visual layout and prototyping. The comprehensive integration between ColdFusion MX and Dreamweaver MX offers developers unprecedented productivity in building ColdFusion applications.

"FOXSports needs to constantly ensure our online content is as compelling as our television content, so we're always using the latest technologies to deliver a great user experience," said Adam Bain, vice president of production and development, FOXSports.com. "Dreamweaver MX, with new features such as support for secure FTP integration and code snippets, has not only made developing our web content and applications easier, but several other tools we used to require as part of our production process just aren't required anymore."

Dreamweaver MX is "Designed for Windows XP" and "Built for Mac OS X." For details of new features in Dreamweaver MX, visit www.macromedia.com/go/dmxnew/.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, priced at $399, is expected to ship in May. Upgrades from previous versions of Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver UltraDev, and ColdFusion Studio are $199. Dreamweaver MX is also included as part of Macromedia Studio MX, also expected to ship in May. Dreamweaver MX will be available in English in May, with Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish available at a later date. Macromedia MX seminars will be held throughout North America, check www.macromedia.com/go/q103prseminar for more information.

With the introduction of Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia will no longer develop or sell Dreamweaver UltraDev or ColdFusion Studio as separate products. HomeSite+, a separate application included with Dreamweaver MX, has the combined functionality of ColdFusion Studio 5 and HomeSite 5. HomeSite 5 will continue to be available for standalone sale.

ABOUT MACROMEDIA
Macromedia (www.macromedia.com) empowers millions of designers and developers to create effective user experiences across the widest array of platforms and devices. Through an open, integrated family of client, tool, and server technologies, Macromedia is driving a new generation of rich Internet applications that will radically improve the Internet experience.

INDUSTRY LEADERS PRAISE DREAMWEAVER MX

The following industry leaders are praising the productivity and extensibility of Dreamweaver MX:

Borland
"Dreamweaver was our obvious choice as the best HTML/JSP editing package, offering developers a powerful new tool to build Internet applications. Borland Enterprise Studio for Java brings the innovative features of Dreamweaver MX together with industry-leading products for developing applications that leverage the Java platform."
- Tony de la Lama, vice president and general manager, Java Solutions, Borland

IBM
"IBM is pleased to work with Macromedia to provide developers with the ability to use Dreamweaver MX to build applications for deployment on IBM WebSphere Application Servers. The planned integration between Dreamweaver MX and IBM's WebSphere Studio development environment via Eclipse, an open-source development platform, will provide developers with a great opportunity to use Dreamweaver MX with other IBM and third party tools to create Internet applications for WebSphere Application Servers."
- Bill Reedy, vice president of business development, IBM WebSphere

Intel
"Dreamweaver MX has been optimized to take advantage of the inherent processing power of the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor. The new Dreamweaver MX from Macromedia running on the Pentium 4 processor gives web developers the performance they need to quickly build powerful Internet applications."
- David Brown, director of Intel's platform enabling group, Intel

Interwoven
"Macromedia is taking Dreamweaver and all their content development tools to an entirely new level with the MX release. Interwoven is pleased to work with Macromedia to ensure that our enterprise content management solutions can leverage the enhanced capabilities of the Macromedia MX product family and provide market-leading solutions for our common customers."
- Chris Cummings, director, solutions marketing, Interwoven

Liberate
"Liberate is the foundation for interactive television. We have worked closely with Macromedia Dreamweaver to create iTV extensions for the Liberate TV platform -- simplifying the creation of HTML content for our developers."
- Emmy Huang, product and solutions marketing manager, Liberate

Microsoft
"We're very excited about Dreamweaver MX's support for Microsoft ASP.NET. Dreamweaver MX takes advantage of the advanced features of ASP.NET to make web developers more productive. The design time features, such as the clear representation of what ASP.NET pages will look like at runtime, code hinting, and code completion, are sure to please many developers."
- Mark Anders, product unit manager, .NET Framework

Oracle
"Oracle9i Application Server is 100 percent standards compliant and one of the industry's most productive application servers for developing Internet applications. Dreamweaver, with support for Oracle9iAS, allows web designers to more quickly build and deploy dynamic J2EE based web applications, enabling faster time to market for their applications."
- Thomas Kurian, senior vice president, Oracle9iAS, Oracle

PayPal
"PayPal is a leading online payment service and we want to ensure developers can create content and applications that flawlessly integrate with our service while providing the best possible user experience. Dreamweaver MX is a leading solution for creating Internet applications and robust websites, and PayPal makes it easy for Macromedia web developers and designers to add robust eCommerce functionality to Dreamweaver MX."
- Dave McClure, director, PayPal Developer Network

Sun
"Macromedia Dreamweaver MX hooks directly into the J2EE platform to enable JSP-based web applications to be easily built and deployed. Sun and Macromedia are working together to better the online user experience."
- Chris Hogan, senior director, Java strategy and product marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc.