P: Allow Catalog to be stored on a networked drive.

why? how does flickr store their assets? or any other entity that has over terabytes of images? On multiple CF cards? Spinning disks are still the biggest and cheapest storage options. We are talking about business oriented features here...

Absolutely, I have only recently upgraded to CS5 because it was a proviso of a recent job

ha ha ha oh I have all the original disks...

Whats interesting about your offer though is the fact that aside from a few bells and whistles, the core features of even PS3 are more than adequate for today's productions - the only "advancements" are tools for use to be less a "designer" and more of a "filter user".

Sure we've had software advancements based on hardware advancements - but then again, case and point - the epic fail of LR being a full fledged DB software tool. Since the early 2000's we've had stable database solution for sharing, and yet here we are, 2013, no men on the moon, no flying cars, and no implementation of 13 year old database solutions.

My router has more guts than LR.
Even windows 3.1 had sharing right out of the box - and permissions.

I hear ya!

I have an old copy of Quark 3 and PS 4 if you wanna go back to the good ol' days 🙂

Thing is though Stuart, is that Adobe could do this now and make not only just as much money, but regain some of the old clout they used to have when they had innovative software. You know, when other developers tried to catch up to them.

Now it's Adobe is like a lame thoroughbred. Trying to catch up with all the trends, none of the functions.

I mean come on - who makes software built one a database platform without using any feature of the database but "search".

It's like they all sat around in the coffee room and were like
Hey?! bet we can write a program in BASIC and sell the snot out of it.

10 print "Hello Sucka's"
20 goto 10

Lightroom and aperture and capture one all "do" the same thing - they are like Canadian and US "big three" beer companies all making the same flavour beer and simply advertising it to death.

It used to be though that Adobe was the microbrewery making such awesome stuff we paid through the nose for.
Now? It's MySpace.

I have bought adobe since 1994. I've been faithful - for like evah.
Sure I've used corel, gimp, quark, blah blah

But in the end it was like we had software made by designers - for designers - and it was awesome.

I miss those days.

I could see a 'Share' tab being more useful than a collection or export based service, meaning that it's catalogue wide functionality and not just an 'as and when' function

i'm not just another pretty face you know...

"Brightroom.. nice © that one"

I guess it will at some point, Bridge was out before LR so i guess they are just hanging onto it

See, if LR did what it was supposed to do you likely would not NEED the other software - or the sidecar files.

Nail on head time.. Why sell one piece of software when adobe can sell you 10

You can still buy their software if you wish.