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Convergence leads to controversy. I think we can expect to see an especially brutal, knock-down, drag-out fight in the second half of this year, with at least a half-dozen major vendors trying to stake their claim on the multimedia Web authoring frontier.
As noted in Chris Jones' Page One special report, the Web authoring field is pretty much dominated by low-end tools for building static documents from companies such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Netscape. Meanwhile, players such as Macromedia and Autodesk are carving out the high end in terms of extensive...