Adobe teams with Metacreations

Adobe Systems Inc. ( adbe) and MetaCreations Corp. (mcre) on Wednesday announced that Adobe and MetaCreations' Metastream subsidiary have formed a "strategic e-commerce partnership" that "provides Adobe access to Metastream's technologies for creating and deploying interactive 3D content on e-commerce sites." Under the deal, Adobe will acquire MetaCreations' Canoma package, which generates 3D figures from photos, and support the Metastream format in a range of its core graphics and publishing applications. -- Matthew Rothenberg, ZDNet News Adobe Systems Inc. ( adbe) and MetaCreations Corp. (mcre) on Wednesday announced that Adobe and MetaCreations' Metastream subsidiary have formed a "strategic e-commerce partnership" that "provides Adobe access to Metastream's technologies for creating and deploying interactive 3D content on e-commerce sites." Under the deal, Adobe will acquire MetaCreations' Canoma package, which generates 3D figures from photos, and support the Metastream format in a range of its core graphics and publishing applications. -- Matthew Rothenberg, ZDNet News