You need to read this…
Nice read and yes, all true and right. For me too, it’s the tool I always wanted to have. 
Martin, that is a strong statement from someone with a tools background
I sure hope they don’t. Unity will disappear, parts of it will be integrated into Flash.
I’d rather have both options and let Adobe try to catch up to Unity.
Oh, and Unity will be 10x more expensive if Adobe owns it.
I’m no expert, but I don’t see Adobe buying Unity.
There’s no doubt in my mind that Flash is going 3d and will compete with Unity in the next few years.
I’d say it’s more a question of UT wanting to sell; Adobe can’t just buy them if they feel like it. If I’d been working on Unity for as long and hard as they have, I can’t imagine wanting to sell it off and watch some other company screw it up, especially not at this juncture.
–Eric
Question is before or after hell freezes
Adobe killed the working 3D technology they had (shockwave thought the new director leaves hope that they didn’t …), so I don’t see them going fully 3d anytime soon.
Also Flash is definitely not comparable to Unity
Unity is game oriented, flash is multimedia oriented with game capabilities.
Adobe actually had a framework similar to Unity years ago…Adobe Atmosphere:
http://www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/
It ran on Javascript.
I still have a working beta version on CD 
Suppose that depends on how loosely you define “compete” 
No, I would never support Adobe owning Unity.
I would go back to Torque if that should ever happen.
Which I doubt it will.
I’m just happy to see that Unity is beginning to get some more attention.
i was just thinking…
either Apple OR Adobe should be buying Unity right now…
funny then i see this thread!
Tj
I guess my point of my comment is that the majority of Adobe’s web weight is behind Flash, not any other technology. If Adobe were to buy Unity, it would be either: A) to add it to Flash, or B) to keep anyone else from buying it (AKA kill it). And yeah, UT would have to agree to sell.
Completely true.
My gut feeling is they’re moving flash towards 3D. Whether or not it will have a game-oriented IDE or game-oriented features (terrain, physics, game-oriented input) is another question. It may be more generalized 3D. But if you look at the features they’ve rolled into the latest versions of flash, it is clear that 3D is coming to Flash, and I think it will be in the next two releases.
~Hanford
PS: Personally I don’t want Adobe to buy Unity.
It could happen. Whoever thought that Bungie would sell out to Micro$oft.
I completely agree. Plus I don’t see how it would be very interesting for the otee developers from a financial point of view. Without any investors to share the loot with, each release is a party.
Except Bungie bought back their independence. Sometimes even buyout deals aren’t the end of the world for companies…
yeah, but something as the case with bungie where they could get out of the deal again is very rare, more common is something like with ensemble studios where although even the studio made lots of succesful things in the past they just get closed down after being swallowed up.
I hope a lot unity would decline such an offer when Adobe or some others bring it up.
I´m a longtime flash user (since its basically called flash ) and i switched over to mainly doing unity stuff because i´m disappointed and fed up with how adobe does things (not enough progress and also not progress in the direction i´d like for ages).
I feel like Adobe hat a lucky hit with buying out Macromedia with the money they had piled up from back in the days when print was the main thing, a few years later and Macromedia could have been bigger than them, but yeah…
I think that blog post is nice because it brings more attention to unity3d which is great for UT but i find the suggestion that Adobe should buy Unity disgusting really, i imagine Adobe owning it would slow down development, raise costs of unity, would lead to some people making the decissions who haven´t been particularly great with making decissions on various ends and overall i can´t imagine it becoming better in any way than how UT handles things now ( cause i like a lot how UT does things).
I think its more likely Autodesk do it then Adobe, they have been on an acquisition rampage lately and unity lines up better with their core business.
I doubt adobe really care about the game market (particularly the lower end of the market). Flash is an interface creation tool that just happens to work nicely for 2d games not the other way around.
What about Apple?
Id say they might be a good buyer?
Tj