GAAP net income for the fiscal second quarter was $20.3m, or $0.25 per diluted share, compared to $14.5m, or $0.20 per diluted share, for the same quarter a year ago.
Chief executive Stephen Elop pointed to growth in business software segment, which represents three quarters of Macromedia’s revenues, as a driver.
Macromedia saw the customer base for Flex, its rich web application framework, grow 25% during the quarter.
Breeze, the company’s answer to WebEx, reported 48% growth year over year – although that number could be attributable to the fact that the product is young and having a tiny customer base compared to WebEx.
Exclusive of merger costs with Adobe, the company expects next quarter revenues of $130m to $140m, with margins of 22% to 23%.
Backing that up are what Elop termed leading indicators, like the take-up of Studio 8, the new development suite for rich internet applications, that only began shipping in the final month of Q2.
Elop claims that features, such as the ability to develop simple rich internet applications without requiring the server-side product, are likely to expand the developer base much wider than past versions.
He reported over one million trial downloads of Studio. As for Flash Player 8, the run time used for playing rich Internet apps developed with Studio, Elop reported it is drawing five million downloads daily. Within the first month, Flash Player 8 has reached the 100 million-download mark.
Additionally, Macromedia claims it has secured agreements for porting the Flash Lite runtime to most of the major handset manufacturers, claiming that a recent agreement with a Korean OEM that he didn’t name is the last major deal to fall into place.
Having already cleared SEC and shareholder approval, Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia still awaits European regulatory approvals. Elop expects that the merger to be formally closed by year-end.
