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           Adobe Systems Incorporated




                  Public (NASDAQ: ADBE)
       Type


                      Mountain View, California (1982)
     Founded


                      San Jose, California, USA
   Headquarters


                  Charles Geschke, Founder
                  John Warnock, Founder
    Key people
                  Shantanu Narayen, President & CEO


                  Software[1]
     Industry


                  See complete products listing
     Products


                  ▲ $3.158 billion USD (2007)[2]
     Revenue


                  6,677 (December 2007)[3]
    Employees


                  http://www.adobe.com/
     Website
Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) is
an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The
company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software
products, with a more-recent foray into rich Internet application software development.

Adobe was founded in December 1982[3] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who
established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript
page description language. In 1985, Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its
LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution. The company name
Adobe comes from Adobe Creek, which ran behind the house of one of the company's
founders.[3] Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in December 2005, which added
newer software products and platforms, such as Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex, to its product
portfolio.

As of January 2007, Adobe Systems has 6,677 employees,[3] about 40% of whom work in San
Jose. Adobe also has major development operations in Seattle, Washington; San Francisco,
California; Ottawa, Ontario; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Newton, Massachusetts; San Luis Obispo,
California; Hamburg, Germany; Noida, India; Bangalore, India; Bucharest, Romania.

Since 1995, Fortune has ranked Adobe as an outstanding place to work. Adobe was rated the
fifth-best U.S. company to work for in 2003, sixth in 2004, 31st in 2007, 40th in 2008, and
eleventh in 2009.[4] In 2007 Adobe ranked 9th on the list of largest software companies in the
world.[5] In May 2008, Adobe Systems India was ranked 19th in great place to work in India.[6]
In October 2008, Adobe Systems Canada Inc. was named one of quot;Canada's Top 100 Employersquot;
by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine.[7]

Contents
       1 History
           o 1.1 Top competitors
           o 1.2 Company events
                   1.2.1 1992
                   1.2.2 1999
                   1.2.3 2003
                   1.2.4 2004
                   1.2.5 2005
                   1.2.6 2006
                   1.2.7 2007
                   1.2.8 2008
       2 Corporate leadership
       3 Products
       4 Financial information
           o 4.1 Revenue
                   4.1.1 2000s
                   4.1.2 1990s
5 Criticism
       6 See also
       7 Notes
       8 References
       9 External links



[edit] History




Adobe Systems headquarters in San Jose, California.

Adobe's first products after PostScript were digital fonts, which they released in a proprietary
format called Type 1. Apple subsequently developed a competing standard, TrueType, which
provided full scalability and precise control of the pixel pattern created by the font's outlines, and
licensed it to Microsoft. Adobe responded by publishing the Type 1 specification and releasing
Adobe Type Manager, software that allowed WYSIWYG scaling of Type 1 fonts on screen, like
TrueType, although without the precise pixel-level control. But these moves were too late to stop
the rise of TrueType. Although Type 1 remained the standard in the graphics/publishing market,
TrueType became the standard for business and the average Windows user. In 1996, Adobe and
Microsoft announced the OpenType font format, and in 2003 Adobe completed converting its
Type 1 font library to OpenType.

In the mid-1980s, Adobe entered the consumer software market with Adobe Illustrator, a vector-
based drawing program for the Apple Macintosh. Illustrator, which grew from the firm's in-
house font-development software, helped popularize PostScript-enabled laser printers. Unlike
MacDraw, then the standard Macintosh vector drawing program, Illustrator described shapes
with more flexible Bézier curves, providing unprecedented accuracy. Font rendering in
Illustrator, however, was left to the Macintosh's QuickDraw libraries and would not be
superseded by a PostScript-like approach until Adobe released Adobe Type Manager.

In 1989, Adobe introduced what was to become its flagship product, Adobe Photoshop for the
Macintosh. Stable and full-featured, Photoshop 1.0 was ably marketed by Adobe and soon
dominated the market.[8]
Arguably, one of Adobe's few missteps on the Macintosh platform was their failure to develop
their own desktop publishing (DTP) program. Instead, Aldus with PageMaker in 1985 and Quark
with QuarkXPress in 1987 gained early leads in the DTP market. Adobe was also slow to
address the emerging Windows DTP market. However, Adobe made great strides in that market
with release of InDesign and its bundled Creative Suite offering. In a failure to predict the
direction of computing, Adobe released a complete version of Illustrator for Steve Jobs' ill-fated
NeXT system, but a poorly produced version for Windows.

Despite these missteps, licensing fees from the PostScript interpreter allowed Adobe to outlast or
acquire many of its rivals in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In December 1991, Adobe released
Adobe Premiere, which Adobe rebranded to Adobe Premiere Pro in 2003. In 1994, Adobe
acquired Aldus and added Adobe PageMaker and Adobe After Effects to its production line later
in the year; it also controls the TIFF file format. In 1995, Adobe added Adobe FrameMaker, the
long-document DTP application, to its production line after Adobe acquired Frame Technology
Corp. In 1999, Adobe introduced Adobe InCopy as a direct competitor to QuarkCopyDesk.[9]

[edit] Top competitors

According to Hoovers[10] Adobe's top competitors are:

       Apple Inc.
       Microsoft
       Quark, Inc.

[edit] Company events

[edit] 1992

       Acquired OCR Systems, Inc.

[edit] 1999

       Acquired GoLive Systems, Inc. and released Adobe GoLive.
       Shipped Adobe InDesign as a direct competitor to QuarkXPress and eventual
       replacement for PageMaker.

[edit] 2003

       May: Acquired Syntrillium Software, adding Adobe Audition to its product line.

[edit] 2004

       December: Acquired French company OKYZ S.A., makers of 3D collaboration software.
       The acquisition added 3D technology and expertise to the Adobe Intelligent Document
       Platform.
[edit] 2005




quot;Formerly Macromediaquot; logo

       December 12, 2005: Acquired its main rival Macromedia in a stock swap valued at about
       $3.4 billion adding: Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe Contribute, Adobe Captivate, Adobe
       Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze), Adobe Director, Adobe Dreamweaver,
       Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash, Macromedia FlashPaper, Adobe Flex, Macromedia
       FreeHand, Macromedia HomeSite, Macromedia JRun, Adobe Presenter, and Macromedia
       Authorware to Adobe's production line.[11][12][13]

[edit] 2006

       October: Adobe acquires Serious Magic, makers of Visual Communicator and video
       blogging application, Vlog It![14]
       November: Sr. Vice-President of Corporate Marketing Melissa Dyrdahl retires from
       Adobe[15] to co-found startup Bring Light with fellow Adobe alum Drew McManus[16]
       December: The firm's headquarters buildings in San Jose received three Leadership in
       Energy and Environmental Design platinum certifications.[17][18]

[edit] 2007

       January: Released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to assist photographers in managing
       digital images and doing post production work. The product was intended as a competitor
       to Apple's Aperture in the RAW image editing market.
       May 2007: Acquired Scene7, which makes an image processing and display platform
       used in many retail sites on the web.
       July: Adobe released Adobe Soundbooth. This product was not intended to replace the
       existing Adobe Audition but merely to provide an environment for professionals not
       specializing in audio.
       August 3, 2007: announced their plans to discontinue development of Authorware, the
       “visual authoring tool for creating rich-media e-learning applications for delivery on
       corporate networks, CD/DVD, and the Web.” Authorware was one of the development
       tools acquired in the Macromedia/Adobe merger. This was replaced by Adobe Captivate.
       October 2007: Acquired Virtual Ubiquity, with its online word processor, Buzzword.
       November 12, 2007: CEO, Bruce Chizen resigns. Effective December 1, he is to be
       replaced by Shantanu Narayen, Adobe's current president and Chief Operating Officer.
       Bruce Chizen is expected to serve out his term on Adobe's Board of Directors, and then
       continue in a strategic advisory role until the end of Adobe's 2008 fiscal year.
       In December 2007, Apple Inc. released a security update for Mac OS X and Mac OS X
       Server to address vulnerabilities in the Adobe products Flash and Shockwave and in Tar,
       a GNU utility. Among the problems addressed were the ability to quot;execute arbitrary
       codequot; and to quot;surreptitiously initiate a video conferencequot;.[19]
[edit] 2008

       April: Adobe releases Adobe Media Player. Many videos and tutorials available for
       entertainment or training.
       27 April: Adobe discontinues development and sales of its older HTML/web
       development software, GoLive in favour of Dreamweaver. Adobe offers a discount on
       Dreamweaver for GoLive users and supports those who still use GoLive with online
       tutorials and migration assistance.
       1 June: Adobe launches Acrobat.com, a series of web applications geared for
       collaborative work. [20]

Creative Suite 4 which includes Design, Web, Production Premium and Master Collection came
out in October 2008 in six configurations at prices from about USD $1,700 to $2,500[21] or by
individual application.[22] The Windows version of Photoshop includes 64-bit processing.[22]

       December 3, 2008: Adobe lays off 600 of its employees (8% of the worldwide staff)
       citing the weak economic environment.

[edit] Corporate leadership
Executive Board[23]
Charles M. Geschke    Co-Chairman of the Board
John E. Warnock       Co-Chairman of the Board
Shantanu Narayen      President & Chief Executive Officer (2005 Compensation: $1.08 M
                      USD)
Karen Cottle          Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary
Mark Garrett          Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Donna Morris          Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Kevin Lynch           Senior Vice President - Experience & Technology Group, Chief
                      Technology Officer

[edit] Products
       Main article: List of Adobe software

Adobe's products include

       desktop software, such as Adobe Photoshop (part of the Adobe Creative Suite) and
       Adobe Audition
       server software, such as Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe LiveCycle
       technologies, such as Portable Document Format (PDF), PDF's predecessor PostScript,
       and Flash
       web hosted services as Adobe Kuler, Photoshop Express, and Acrobat.com
[edit] Financial information
Adobe Systems entered NASDAQ in 1986. Adobe's 2006 revenues were $2.575 billion USD.[24]

As of February 2007, Adobe's market capitalization was roughly $23 billion USD; as of August
2007, its shares were trading on the NASDAQ for around $40 USD, with a P/E ratio of about 49
and EPS of about $0.82.[24]

As of March 2008, Adobe's market capitalization was roughly $18 billion USD; its shares were
trading on the NASDAQ for around $33 USD, with a P/E ratio of about 27 and EPS of about
$1.21.[24]

[edit] Revenue

[edit] 2000s                                   [edit] 1990s


Fiscal year        Revenue                      Fiscal year       Revenue


               $3.58 billion [25]                             $1.015 billion[31]
2008                                            1999


               $3.158 billion [26]                            $0.895 billion[32]
2007                                            1998


               $2.675 billion[27]                             $0.912 billion[32]
2006                                            1997


               $1.966 billion[27]                             $0.787 billion[32]
2005                                            1996


               $1.667 billion[28]                             $0.762 billion[32]
2004                                            1995


               $1.295 billion[29]                             $0.676 billion[32]
2003                                            1994


               $1.165 billion[29]
2002


               $1.230 billion[30]
2001
$1.156 billion[31]
2000



[edit] Criticism
Adobe has been extensively criticised[33][34][35] for its pricing practices, with retail prices being as
much as twice as high[36] in foreign countries than in the domestic market.

[edit] See also

        Companies portal



        Adobe Engagement Platform
        Adobe Solutions Network
        OpenType
        PDF
        PostScript
        Adobe ColdFusion
        Adobe MAX
        US v. ElcomSoft Sklyarov
        MEI (Managing Editor Inc.) - Adobe reseller, distributor of the K4 Publishing System
        that works with Adobe InCopy and InDesign, and developer of publishing software that
        works with Adobe products

[edit] Notes
    1. ^ Adobe - Company Overview - Hoover's
    2. ^ quot;Company Profile for Adobe Systems Inc (ADBE)quot;.
        http://zenobank.com/index.php?symbol=ADBE&page=quotesearch. Retrieved on 2008-09-29.
    3. ^ a b c d quot;Adobe Fast Factsquot; (PDF). 2007-01-15.
        http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/fastfacts.pdf. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
    4. ^ quot;100 Best Companies to Work For 2009quot;.
        http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2009/full_list/.
    5. ^ Software Top 100: quot;The World's Largest Software Companiesquot;
    6. ^ quot;Best Places to work in Indiaquot;. http://www.greatplacetowork.com/best/list-in.htm.
    7. ^ quot;Reasons for Selection, 2009 Canada's Top 100 Employers Competitionquot;.
        http://www.eluta.ca/top-employer-adobe-systems-canada.
    8. ^ Hormby, Thomas. quot;How Adobe's Photoshop Was Bornquot;. SiliconUser.
        http://www.siliconuser.com/?q=node/10. Retrieved on June 12 2007.
    9. ^ About Adobe - Press Room - For Immediate Release
    10. ^ Adobe - Company Overview - Hoover's
11. ^ Adobe (April 18, 2005). Adobe to acquire Macromedia. Press release.
    http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html. Retrieved on 2007-
    03-31.
12. ^ Macromedia (April 18, 2005). ADOBE TO ACQUIRE MACROMEDIA. Press release.
    http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html. Retrieved on
    2007-03-31.
13. ^ Graham, Jefferson (2005-04-18). quot;Adobe buys Macromedia in $3.4B dealquot;. USA Today.
    http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-04-18-adobe-
    macromedia_x.htm?csp=34. Retrieved on 2007-03-31.
14. ^ quot;Adobe acquires Serious Magicquot;. InfoWorld. 2006-10-19.
    http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/19/HNadobeseriousmagic_1.html. Retrieved on 2008-
    10-25.
15. ^ quot;People On the Movequot;. San Jose Business Journal. 2006-11-20.
    http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/potm/2006-11-20/. Retrieved on 2009-02-14.
16. ^ quot;Tapping Internet to Help Nonprofitsquot;. San Jose Mercury News. 2007-05-26.
    http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_5994255?nclick_check=1. Retrieved on 2007-07-02.
17. ^ quot;Adobe Headquarters Awarded Highest Honors from U.S. Green Building Councilquot;.
    http://www.usgbc.org/News/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?ID=2783.
18. ^ quot;The Greenest Office in Americaquot;.
    http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384321/index.htm.
19. ^ quot;US-CERT email and National Cyber Alert System: Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-
    352Aquot;. US-CERT now United States Department of Homeland Security. December 18, 2007.
    http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-18.
20. ^ Erik Larson (2008-06-01). quot;Welcome to Acrobat.com - Work. Together. Anywhere.quot;. Adobe.
    http://blogs.adobe.com/acom/2008/06/welcome_to_acrobatcom_work_tog_1.html. Retrieved on
    2008-06-02.
21. ^ quot;Adobe launches Creative Suite 4; Likely to top low expectationsquot;. ZDNet (CBS). September
    23, 2008. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10127. Retrieved on 2008-09-23.
22. ^ a b Carlson, Jeff (September 23, 2008). quot;Adobe Announces Vast Creative Suite 4quot;. TidBITS.
    http://db.tidbits.com/article/9782. Retrieved on 2008-09-23.
23. ^ http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/fastfacts.pdf
24. ^ a b c quot;Adobe Systems Incorporated Company Profilequot;. Google Finance.
    http://finance.google.com/finance?q=ADBE.
25. ^ Q4 and FY2008 earnings press release
26. ^ Macsimum News - Adobe announces record revenue
27. ^ a b adobe.com
28. ^ adobe.com
29. ^ a b Adobe Systems Reports Record Quarterly and Annual Revenue
30. ^ adobe.com
31. ^ a b adobe.com
32. ^ a b c d e adobe.com
33. ^ quot;Photographers take stand against Adobequot;. http://www.bjp-
    online.com/public/showPage.html?page=441615.
34. ^ quot;Adobe responds to CS4 pricing criticismquot;.
    http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39497760,00.htm?r=1.
35. ^ quot;Adobe defends CS4 pricingquot;. http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Adobe-defends-CS4-
    pricing/0,339028227,339292472,00.htm.
36. ^ quot;Adobe responds to customer protests against perceived unfair pricing.quot;.
    http://www.creativepro.com/article/creative-suite-pricing-varies-throughout-world.
[edit] References
         quot;Adobe Logo Historyquot; (HTML). http://worldsbestlogos.blogspot.com/2007/08/adobe-
         systems-logo-history.html.
         quot;Adobe timelinequot; (PDF). Archived from the original on 2006-01-06.
         http://www.archive.org/download/AdobeTimeline2005/timeline.pdf.
         quot;Patents owned by Adobe Systemsquot;. US Patent & Trademark Office.
         http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-
         Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-
         adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=an%2F%22Adobe+Systems%22&d=ptxt.
         Retrieved on 8 December 2005.
         San Jose Semaphore on Adobe's building

         quot;Adobe Systems Incorporated Company Profilequot;. Yahoo!.
         http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/12/12518.html.




[edit] External links
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         Adobe Systems Video and Audio on MarketWatch

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Adobe System

  • 1. Adobe Systems From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Adobe Systems Incorporated Public (NASDAQ: ADBE) Type Mountain View, California (1982) Founded San Jose, California, USA Headquarters Charles Geschke, Founder John Warnock, Founder Key people Shantanu Narayen, President & CEO Software[1] Industry See complete products listing Products ▲ $3.158 billion USD (2007)[2] Revenue 6,677 (December 2007)[3] Employees http://www.adobe.com/ Website
  • 2. Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray into rich Internet application software development. Adobe was founded in December 1982[3] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page description language. In 1985, Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution. The company name Adobe comes from Adobe Creek, which ran behind the house of one of the company's founders.[3] Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in December 2005, which added newer software products and platforms, such as Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex, to its product portfolio. As of January 2007, Adobe Systems has 6,677 employees,[3] about 40% of whom work in San Jose. Adobe also has major development operations in Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California; Ottawa, Ontario; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Newton, Massachusetts; San Luis Obispo, California; Hamburg, Germany; Noida, India; Bangalore, India; Bucharest, Romania. Since 1995, Fortune has ranked Adobe as an outstanding place to work. Adobe was rated the fifth-best U.S. company to work for in 2003, sixth in 2004, 31st in 2007, 40th in 2008, and eleventh in 2009.[4] In 2007 Adobe ranked 9th on the list of largest software companies in the world.[5] In May 2008, Adobe Systems India was ranked 19th in great place to work in India.[6] In October 2008, Adobe Systems Canada Inc. was named one of quot;Canada's Top 100 Employersquot; by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine.[7] Contents 1 History o 1.1 Top competitors o 1.2 Company events  1.2.1 1992  1.2.2 1999  1.2.3 2003  1.2.4 2004  1.2.5 2005  1.2.6 2006  1.2.7 2007  1.2.8 2008 2 Corporate leadership 3 Products 4 Financial information o 4.1 Revenue  4.1.1 2000s  4.1.2 1990s
  • 3. 5 Criticism 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External links [edit] History Adobe Systems headquarters in San Jose, California. Adobe's first products after PostScript were digital fonts, which they released in a proprietary format called Type 1. Apple subsequently developed a competing standard, TrueType, which provided full scalability and precise control of the pixel pattern created by the font's outlines, and licensed it to Microsoft. Adobe responded by publishing the Type 1 specification and releasing Adobe Type Manager, software that allowed WYSIWYG scaling of Type 1 fonts on screen, like TrueType, although without the precise pixel-level control. But these moves were too late to stop the rise of TrueType. Although Type 1 remained the standard in the graphics/publishing market, TrueType became the standard for business and the average Windows user. In 1996, Adobe and Microsoft announced the OpenType font format, and in 2003 Adobe completed converting its Type 1 font library to OpenType. In the mid-1980s, Adobe entered the consumer software market with Adobe Illustrator, a vector- based drawing program for the Apple Macintosh. Illustrator, which grew from the firm's in- house font-development software, helped popularize PostScript-enabled laser printers. Unlike MacDraw, then the standard Macintosh vector drawing program, Illustrator described shapes with more flexible Bézier curves, providing unprecedented accuracy. Font rendering in Illustrator, however, was left to the Macintosh's QuickDraw libraries and would not be superseded by a PostScript-like approach until Adobe released Adobe Type Manager. In 1989, Adobe introduced what was to become its flagship product, Adobe Photoshop for the Macintosh. Stable and full-featured, Photoshop 1.0 was ably marketed by Adobe and soon dominated the market.[8]
  • 4. Arguably, one of Adobe's few missteps on the Macintosh platform was their failure to develop their own desktop publishing (DTP) program. Instead, Aldus with PageMaker in 1985 and Quark with QuarkXPress in 1987 gained early leads in the DTP market. Adobe was also slow to address the emerging Windows DTP market. However, Adobe made great strides in that market with release of InDesign and its bundled Creative Suite offering. In a failure to predict the direction of computing, Adobe released a complete version of Illustrator for Steve Jobs' ill-fated NeXT system, but a poorly produced version for Windows. Despite these missteps, licensing fees from the PostScript interpreter allowed Adobe to outlast or acquire many of its rivals in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In December 1991, Adobe released Adobe Premiere, which Adobe rebranded to Adobe Premiere Pro in 2003. In 1994, Adobe acquired Aldus and added Adobe PageMaker and Adobe After Effects to its production line later in the year; it also controls the TIFF file format. In 1995, Adobe added Adobe FrameMaker, the long-document DTP application, to its production line after Adobe acquired Frame Technology Corp. In 1999, Adobe introduced Adobe InCopy as a direct competitor to QuarkCopyDesk.[9] [edit] Top competitors According to Hoovers[10] Adobe's top competitors are: Apple Inc. Microsoft Quark, Inc. [edit] Company events [edit] 1992 Acquired OCR Systems, Inc. [edit] 1999 Acquired GoLive Systems, Inc. and released Adobe GoLive. Shipped Adobe InDesign as a direct competitor to QuarkXPress and eventual replacement for PageMaker. [edit] 2003 May: Acquired Syntrillium Software, adding Adobe Audition to its product line. [edit] 2004 December: Acquired French company OKYZ S.A., makers of 3D collaboration software. The acquisition added 3D technology and expertise to the Adobe Intelligent Document Platform.
  • 5. [edit] 2005 quot;Formerly Macromediaquot; logo December 12, 2005: Acquired its main rival Macromedia in a stock swap valued at about $3.4 billion adding: Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe Contribute, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze), Adobe Director, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash, Macromedia FlashPaper, Adobe Flex, Macromedia FreeHand, Macromedia HomeSite, Macromedia JRun, Adobe Presenter, and Macromedia Authorware to Adobe's production line.[11][12][13] [edit] 2006 October: Adobe acquires Serious Magic, makers of Visual Communicator and video blogging application, Vlog It![14] November: Sr. Vice-President of Corporate Marketing Melissa Dyrdahl retires from Adobe[15] to co-found startup Bring Light with fellow Adobe alum Drew McManus[16] December: The firm's headquarters buildings in San Jose received three Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum certifications.[17][18] [edit] 2007 January: Released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to assist photographers in managing digital images and doing post production work. The product was intended as a competitor to Apple's Aperture in the RAW image editing market. May 2007: Acquired Scene7, which makes an image processing and display platform used in many retail sites on the web. July: Adobe released Adobe Soundbooth. This product was not intended to replace the existing Adobe Audition but merely to provide an environment for professionals not specializing in audio. August 3, 2007: announced their plans to discontinue development of Authorware, the “visual authoring tool for creating rich-media e-learning applications for delivery on corporate networks, CD/DVD, and the Web.” Authorware was one of the development tools acquired in the Macromedia/Adobe merger. This was replaced by Adobe Captivate. October 2007: Acquired Virtual Ubiquity, with its online word processor, Buzzword. November 12, 2007: CEO, Bruce Chizen resigns. Effective December 1, he is to be replaced by Shantanu Narayen, Adobe's current president and Chief Operating Officer. Bruce Chizen is expected to serve out his term on Adobe's Board of Directors, and then continue in a strategic advisory role until the end of Adobe's 2008 fiscal year. In December 2007, Apple Inc. released a security update for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server to address vulnerabilities in the Adobe products Flash and Shockwave and in Tar, a GNU utility. Among the problems addressed were the ability to quot;execute arbitrary codequot; and to quot;surreptitiously initiate a video conferencequot;.[19]
  • 6. [edit] 2008 April: Adobe releases Adobe Media Player. Many videos and tutorials available for entertainment or training. 27 April: Adobe discontinues development and sales of its older HTML/web development software, GoLive in favour of Dreamweaver. Adobe offers a discount on Dreamweaver for GoLive users and supports those who still use GoLive with online tutorials and migration assistance. 1 June: Adobe launches Acrobat.com, a series of web applications geared for collaborative work. [20] Creative Suite 4 which includes Design, Web, Production Premium and Master Collection came out in October 2008 in six configurations at prices from about USD $1,700 to $2,500[21] or by individual application.[22] The Windows version of Photoshop includes 64-bit processing.[22] December 3, 2008: Adobe lays off 600 of its employees (8% of the worldwide staff) citing the weak economic environment. [edit] Corporate leadership Executive Board[23] Charles M. Geschke Co-Chairman of the Board John E. Warnock Co-Chairman of the Board Shantanu Narayen President & Chief Executive Officer (2005 Compensation: $1.08 M USD) Karen Cottle Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary Mark Garrett Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Donna Morris Senior Vice President, Human Resources Kevin Lynch Senior Vice President - Experience & Technology Group, Chief Technology Officer [edit] Products Main article: List of Adobe software Adobe's products include desktop software, such as Adobe Photoshop (part of the Adobe Creative Suite) and Adobe Audition server software, such as Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe LiveCycle technologies, such as Portable Document Format (PDF), PDF's predecessor PostScript, and Flash web hosted services as Adobe Kuler, Photoshop Express, and Acrobat.com
  • 7. [edit] Financial information Adobe Systems entered NASDAQ in 1986. Adobe's 2006 revenues were $2.575 billion USD.[24] As of February 2007, Adobe's market capitalization was roughly $23 billion USD; as of August 2007, its shares were trading on the NASDAQ for around $40 USD, with a P/E ratio of about 49 and EPS of about $0.82.[24] As of March 2008, Adobe's market capitalization was roughly $18 billion USD; its shares were trading on the NASDAQ for around $33 USD, with a P/E ratio of about 27 and EPS of about $1.21.[24] [edit] Revenue [edit] 2000s [edit] 1990s Fiscal year Revenue Fiscal year Revenue $3.58 billion [25] $1.015 billion[31] 2008 1999 $3.158 billion [26] $0.895 billion[32] 2007 1998 $2.675 billion[27] $0.912 billion[32] 2006 1997 $1.966 billion[27] $0.787 billion[32] 2005 1996 $1.667 billion[28] $0.762 billion[32] 2004 1995 $1.295 billion[29] $0.676 billion[32] 2003 1994 $1.165 billion[29] 2002 $1.230 billion[30] 2001
  • 8. $1.156 billion[31] 2000 [edit] Criticism Adobe has been extensively criticised[33][34][35] for its pricing practices, with retail prices being as much as twice as high[36] in foreign countries than in the domestic market. [edit] See also Companies portal Adobe Engagement Platform Adobe Solutions Network OpenType PDF PostScript Adobe ColdFusion Adobe MAX US v. ElcomSoft Sklyarov MEI (Managing Editor Inc.) - Adobe reseller, distributor of the K4 Publishing System that works with Adobe InCopy and InDesign, and developer of publishing software that works with Adobe products [edit] Notes 1. ^ Adobe - Company Overview - Hoover's 2. ^ quot;Company Profile for Adobe Systems Inc (ADBE)quot;. http://zenobank.com/index.php?symbol=ADBE&page=quotesearch. Retrieved on 2008-09-29. 3. ^ a b c d quot;Adobe Fast Factsquot; (PDF). 2007-01-15. http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/fastfacts.pdf. Retrieved on 2007-04-18. 4. ^ quot;100 Best Companies to Work For 2009quot;. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2009/full_list/. 5. ^ Software Top 100: quot;The World's Largest Software Companiesquot; 6. ^ quot;Best Places to work in Indiaquot;. http://www.greatplacetowork.com/best/list-in.htm. 7. ^ quot;Reasons for Selection, 2009 Canada's Top 100 Employers Competitionquot;. http://www.eluta.ca/top-employer-adobe-systems-canada. 8. ^ Hormby, Thomas. quot;How Adobe's Photoshop Was Bornquot;. SiliconUser. http://www.siliconuser.com/?q=node/10. Retrieved on June 12 2007. 9. ^ About Adobe - Press Room - For Immediate Release 10. ^ Adobe - Company Overview - Hoover's
  • 9. 11. ^ Adobe (April 18, 2005). Adobe to acquire Macromedia. Press release. http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html. Retrieved on 2007- 03-31. 12. ^ Macromedia (April 18, 2005). ADOBE TO ACQUIRE MACROMEDIA. Press release. http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-31. 13. ^ Graham, Jefferson (2005-04-18). quot;Adobe buys Macromedia in $3.4B dealquot;. USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-04-18-adobe- macromedia_x.htm?csp=34. Retrieved on 2007-03-31. 14. ^ quot;Adobe acquires Serious Magicquot;. InfoWorld. 2006-10-19. http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/19/HNadobeseriousmagic_1.html. Retrieved on 2008- 10-25. 15. ^ quot;People On the Movequot;. San Jose Business Journal. 2006-11-20. http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/potm/2006-11-20/. Retrieved on 2009-02-14. 16. ^ quot;Tapping Internet to Help Nonprofitsquot;. San Jose Mercury News. 2007-05-26. http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_5994255?nclick_check=1. Retrieved on 2007-07-02. 17. ^ quot;Adobe Headquarters Awarded Highest Honors from U.S. Green Building Councilquot;. http://www.usgbc.org/News/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?ID=2783. 18. ^ quot;The Greenest Office in Americaquot;. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384321/index.htm. 19. ^ quot;US-CERT email and National Cyber Alert System: Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07- 352Aquot;. US-CERT now United States Department of Homeland Security. December 18, 2007. http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-18. 20. ^ Erik Larson (2008-06-01). quot;Welcome to Acrobat.com - Work. Together. Anywhere.quot;. Adobe. http://blogs.adobe.com/acom/2008/06/welcome_to_acrobatcom_work_tog_1.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-02. 21. ^ quot;Adobe launches Creative Suite 4; Likely to top low expectationsquot;. ZDNet (CBS). September 23, 2008. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10127. Retrieved on 2008-09-23. 22. ^ a b Carlson, Jeff (September 23, 2008). quot;Adobe Announces Vast Creative Suite 4quot;. TidBITS. http://db.tidbits.com/article/9782. Retrieved on 2008-09-23. 23. ^ http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/fastfacts.pdf 24. ^ a b c quot;Adobe Systems Incorporated Company Profilequot;. Google Finance. http://finance.google.com/finance?q=ADBE. 25. ^ Q4 and FY2008 earnings press release 26. ^ Macsimum News - Adobe announces record revenue 27. ^ a b adobe.com 28. ^ adobe.com 29. ^ a b Adobe Systems Reports Record Quarterly and Annual Revenue 30. ^ adobe.com 31. ^ a b adobe.com 32. ^ a b c d e adobe.com 33. ^ quot;Photographers take stand against Adobequot;. http://www.bjp- online.com/public/showPage.html?page=441615. 34. ^ quot;Adobe responds to CS4 pricing criticismquot;. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39497760,00.htm?r=1. 35. ^ quot;Adobe defends CS4 pricingquot;. http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Adobe-defends-CS4- pricing/0,339028227,339292472,00.htm. 36. ^ quot;Adobe responds to customer protests against perceived unfair pricing.quot;. http://www.creativepro.com/article/creative-suite-pricing-varies-throughout-world.
  • 10. [edit] References quot;Adobe Logo Historyquot; (HTML). http://worldsbestlogos.blogspot.com/2007/08/adobe- systems-logo-history.html. quot;Adobe timelinequot; (PDF). Archived from the original on 2006-01-06. http://www.archive.org/download/AdobeTimeline2005/timeline.pdf. quot;Patents owned by Adobe Systemsquot;. US Patent & Trademark Office. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph- Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch- adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=an%2F%22Adobe+Systems%22&d=ptxt. Retrieved on 8 December 2005. San Jose Semaphore on Adobe's building quot;Adobe Systems Incorporated Company Profilequot;. Yahoo!. http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/12/12518.html. [edit] External links Media related to Adobe Systems at Wikimedia Commons Adobe Systems Video and Audio on MarketWatch v•d•e Adobe Systems Creative Suite · eLearning Suite · Technical Communication Suite · Acrobat · Audition · Digital Editions · Director · GoLive · Desktop software PageMaker · Photoshop Lightroom · more Adobe Reader · Flash Player · AIR · Adobe Media Player · Readers and players Shockwave Player ColdFusion · LiveCycle · Flash Media Server · JRun · Premiere Server software Express · Photoshop Express · BlazeDS PostScript · PDF · FlashPaper · Authorware · Flash · Font Folio · Technology DNG · Flex · AIR Adobe Solutions Network Services Bruce Chizen · Charles Geschke · Shantanu Narayen · John Warnock · Board of directors Del Yocam Mergers and acquisitions · Aldus · Macromedia · Scene7 Acquisitions v•d•e Major information technology companies Alcatel-Lucent · Apple · Audiovox · HTC · Kyocera · LG · Cellular hardware Motorola · Nokia · Palm · Qualcomm · RIM · Samsung ·
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