Neat. I didn't know about this. Is it cool? I'm going to try the beta right now.

It's very cool, but is in danger of being killed since Adobe bought Macromedia as there's now overlap between FW and Illustrator. And Adobe is generally pretty evil.

Let's hope they keep it around.

Adobe had image-ready to compete with fireworks. Upon acquiring the Macromedia products, they canceled the image-ready line. Illustrator is a vector editing/illustration suite. Fireworks is a web graphics suite. No need to worry, there is no major overlap (or at least not enough to warrant canceling a popular software title).