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{{Infobox Company | company_name = Adobe Systems Incorporated | company_logo = ] | company_type = Public company ([NASDAQ: [http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol=ADBE ADBE) | foundation = {{flagicon|United States--> [San Jose, California (1982) | location_city = San Jose, California | location_country = U.S. | key_people = [Charles Geschke, Founder
[John Warnock, Founder
[Bruce Chizen, [Chief Executive Officer
[Shantanu Narayen, [President & [Chief Operating Officer | industry = Software [http://www.hoovers.com/adobe/--ID__12518--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml | products = [List of Adobe software | revenue = {{profit--> $2.575 billion [United States dollar (2006) | num_employees = 6,068 (January 2007) | homepage = http://www.adobe.com www.adobe.com -->Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee ) () () is an United States computer Computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA.

Adobe was founded in December 1982 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 Inc. licensed PostScript for use in its LaserWriter computer printer, 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. Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in December 2005.

As of January 2007, Adobe Systems has 6,068 employees,{{cite web]; San Francisco, California; Ottawa, Canada, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Newton, Massachusetts; San Luis Obispo, California and in Hamburg, Germany, Noida, India, and Bangalore, India.

Since 2001, Fortune magazine 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, and 31st in 2007.{{cite web| url = http://www.greatplacetowork.com/best/list-bestusa-2007.htm | title = 100 Best Companies to Work For 2007-->

History .Adobe's first products after PostScript were digital Typeface, 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, though 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 Computer software market with Adobe Illustrator, a vector graphics-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.{{cite web]-->

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 Adobe PageMaker in 1985 and Quark, Inc. with QuarkXPress in 1987 gained early leads in the DTP market. Adobe was also slow to address the emerging Microsoft Windows DTP market. However, Adobe made great strides in that market with release of InDesign and its bundled Creative Suite offering. In a classic 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 rebrand to Adobe Premiere Pro in 2003. Also in the same year (1991), Adobe released Adobe InCopy as a direct competitor to QuarkCopyDesk. 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 acquired GoLive Systems, Inc. and released Adobe GoLive.

Also, in 1999, Adobe shipped Adobe InDesign as a direct competitor to QuarkXPress.

In May 2003, Adobe acquired Syntrillium Software, which added Adobe Audition to its product line.

On December 12, 2005, Adobe Systems acquired its main rival Macromedia in a stock swap valued at about $3.4 billion which adds: Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe Contribute, Adobe Director, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash, Macromedia FlashPaper, Adobe Flex, Macromedia FreeHand, Macromedia HomeSite, Macromedia JRun, and Macromedia Authorware to Adobe's production line.{{cite press release ] platinum certifications{{cite web| url = http://www.usgbc.org/News/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?ID=2783 | title = Adobe Headquarters Awarded Highest Honors from U.S. Green Building Council-->{{cite web | url = http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384321/index.htm | title = The Greenest Office in America-->.

In January 2007, Adobe 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 Aperture (photography software) in the RAW image editing market.

In July 2007, 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.

On August 3, 2007, Adobe announced its 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. No comparable eLearning development tool in terms of capabilities is being offered at this time by Adobe.

Corporate Leadership {| width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"|-| colspan="2" | Executive Board|- valign="top"| width="150" | Charles Geschke| Co-Chairman of the Board| Co-Chairman of the Board|- valign="top"| width="150" | [Bruce Chizen, Director (2005 Compensation: $1.99 M [United States dollar)|- valign="top"| width="150" | [Shantanu Narayen)|-

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Acquisitions

In 1999, Adobe acquired GoLive Systems. Later, released as Adobe GoLive
In May 2003, Adobe acquired Syntrillium. Release acquired product as Adobe Audition
On December 12 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia for 3.4 billion, included its Flash and other technology.
In May 2007, Adobe acquired Scene7, which makes an image processing and display platform used in many retail sites on the web.
In October 2007, Adobe acquired Buzzword, included with online word processor.

Products Financial information Adobe Systems entered NASDAQ in 1986. Adobe's 2006 revenues were $2.575 billion United States dollar. As of February 2007, Adobe's market capitalization is roughly $23 1 E9 United States dollar, and, as of August, 2007, its shares are trading on the NASDAQ for around $40 United States dollar, with a P/E ratio of about 49 and EPS of about $0.82.

Revenue {| class="wikitable"|-! Fiscal year! Revenue|-| 2006| $2.575 billion adobe.com|-| 2005| $1.966 billion |-| 2004| $1.667 billion adobe.com|-| 2003| $1.295 billion Adobe Systems Reports Record Quarterly and Annual Revenue|-| 2002| $1.165 billion |-| 2001| $1.230 billion adobe.com|-| 2000| $1.266 billion adobe.com|-| 1999| $1.015 billion |-| 1998| $0.895 billion adobe.com|-| 1997| $0.912 billion |-| 1996| $0.787 billion |-| 1995| $0.762 billion |-| 1994| $0.676 billion |}

See also

Notes References

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{{cite web

| url = http://www.adobe.com/uk/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/timeline.pdf | title = Adobe timeline | format = PDF | archiveurl = http://www.archive.org/download/AdobeTimeline2005/timeline.pdf | archivedate = 2006-01-06 -->

{{cite web

| title = Patents owned by Adobe Systems | work = US Patent & Trademark Office | url = 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 | accessmonthday=8 December | accessyear = 2005 -->

San Jose Semaphore on Adobe's building

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| url = http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/12/12518.html | publisher = Yahoo! | title = Adobe Systems Incorporated Company Profile -->

{{Infobox Company | company_name = Adobe Systems Incorporated | company_logo = ] | company_type = Public company ([NASDAQ: [http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol=ADBE ADBE) | foundation = {{flagicon|United States--> [San Jose, California (1982) | location_city = San Jose, California | location_country = U.S. | key_people = [Charles Geschke, Founder
[John Warnock, Founder
[Bruce Chizen, [Chief Executive Officer
[Shantanu Narayen, [President & [Chief Operating Officer | industry = Software [http://www.hoovers.com/adobe/--ID__12518--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml | products = [List of Adobe software | revenue = {{profit--> $2.575 billion [United States dollar (2006) | num_employees = 6,068 (January 2007) | homepage = http://www.adobe.com www.adobe.com -->Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee ) () () is an United States computer Computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA.

Adobe was founded in December 1982 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 Inc. licensed PostScript for use in its LaserWriter computer printer, 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. Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in December 2005.

As of January 2007, Adobe Systems has 6,068 employees,{{cite web]; San Francisco, California; Ottawa, Canada, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Newton, Massachusetts; San Luis Obispo, California and in Hamburg, Germany, Noida, India, and Bangalore, India.

Since 2001, Fortune magazine 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, and 31st in 2007.{{cite web| url = http://www.greatplacetowork.com/best/list-bestusa-2007.htm | title = 100 Best Companies to Work For 2007-->

History .Adobe's first products after PostScript were digital Typeface, 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, though 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 Computer software market with Adobe Illustrator, a vector graphics-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.{{cite web]-->

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 Adobe PageMaker in 1985 and Quark, Inc. with QuarkXPress in 1987 gained early leads in the DTP market. Adobe was also slow to address the emerging Microsoft Windows DTP market. However, Adobe made great strides in that market with release of InDesign and its bundled Creative Suite offering. In a classic 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 rebrand to Adobe Premiere Pro in 2003. Also in the same year (1991), Adobe released Adobe InCopy as a direct competitor to QuarkCopyDesk. 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 acquired GoLive Systems, Inc. and released Adobe GoLive.

Also, in 1999, Adobe shipped Adobe InDesign as a direct competitor to QuarkXPress.

In May 2003, Adobe acquired Syntrillium Software, which added Adobe Audition to its product line.

On December 12, 2005, Adobe Systems acquired its main rival Macromedia in a stock swap valued at about $3.4 billion which adds: Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe Contribute, Adobe Director, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash, Macromedia FlashPaper, Adobe Flex, Macromedia FreeHand, Macromedia HomeSite, Macromedia JRun, and Macromedia Authorware to Adobe's production line.{{cite press release ] platinum certifications{{cite web| url = http://www.usgbc.org/News/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?ID=2783 | title = Adobe Headquarters Awarded Highest Honors from U.S. Green Building Council-->{{cite web | url = http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384321/index.htm | title = The Greenest Office in America-->.

In January 2007, Adobe 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 Aperture (photography software) in the RAW image editing market.

In July 2007, 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.

On August 3, 2007, Adobe announced its 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. No comparable eLearning development tool in terms of capabilities is being offered at this time by Adobe.

Corporate Leadership {| width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"|-| colspan="2" | Executive Board|- valign="top"| width="150" | Charles Geschke| Co-Chairman of the Board| Co-Chairman of the Board|- valign="top"| width="150" | [Bruce Chizen, Director (2005 Compensation: $1.99 M [United States dollar)|- valign="top"| width="150" | [Shantanu Narayen)|-

|}

Acquisitions

In 1999, Adobe acquired GoLive Systems. Later, released as Adobe GoLive
In May 2003, Adobe acquired Syntrillium. Release acquired product as Adobe Audition
On December 12 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia for 3.4 billion, included its Flash and other technology.
In May 2007, Adobe acquired Scene7, which makes an image processing and display platform used in many retail sites on the web.
In October 2007, Adobe acquired Buzzword, included with online word processor.

List of Adobe acquisitions
Adobe Engagement Platform
Adobe Solutions Network
OpenType
Portable Document Format
PostScript
Adobe ColdFusion

Notes References

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San Jose Semaphore on Adobe's building

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| url = http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/12/12518.html | publisher = Yahoo! | title = Adobe Systems Incorporated Company Profile -->

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