LOL - I'm giving you the benfit of the doubt and call you an "optimist". Two development/marketing/q+a/etc teams doing exactly the same thing - that being the case with Illustrator/Freehand as well as ImageReady/Fireworks - how long do you think they're going to be around? Three months, maybe six? Nine at most. Those two will be the first products to be "enhanced" by tossing the respective source code in a blender, recompiling the whole shebang and firing 50% of the combined staff.

Dreamweaver/GoLive is going to be next in line for "significant enhancement" (speak: "eleventy billion new features that make development of interactive content for mobile applications easier") because "the market" requires these features (or not, but who cares anyway) ...

If I were a Macromedia employee working on the development of any of the apps above, I'd be spending today updating my resume and getting ready to schedule a whole lotta interviews ...