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Adobe Systems Incorporated
Type Public (NASDAQ: ADBE)
Founded Flag of the United States Mountain View (1982)
Headquarters San Jose, California, United States
Key people Charles Geschke, Founder
John Warnock, Founder
Shantanu Narayen, President & CEO
Industry Software[1]
Products See complete products listing
Revenue ▲ $3. A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered securities ( Stock, bonds, etc The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. Charles M "Chuck" Geschke (born 1939 is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc John Warnock (b October 6, 1940) is an American Computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Shantanu Narayen is the current CEO of Adobe Systems. Prior to this post he held the role as the President & Chief Operating Officer since 2005 A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" The software industry comprises businesses involved in the development, maintenance and publication of Computer software. In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need A list of Adobe Systems products In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services 157 billion USD (2007)
Employees 6,677 (December 2007)[2]
Website http://www.adobe.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A computer is a Machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions.

Adobe was founded in December 1982[2] 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. John Warnock (b October 6, 1940) is an American Computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Charles M "Chuck" Geschke (born 1939 is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Inc formerly Xerox PARC, is a Research and development company in Palo Alto California that began as a division of PostScript ( PS) is a dynamically typed concatenative Programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982 A page description language (PDL is a language that describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output Bitmap. In 1985, Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution. Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics The Apple LaserWriter was one of the first Laser printers available to the mass market Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a Personal computer and WYSIWYG page layout Software to create Publication Documents The company name Adobe comes from Adobe Creek, which ran behind the house of one of the company's founders. [2] Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in December 2005. Macromedia was a North American graphics and Web development Software house headquartered in San Francisco, California producing such products

As of January 2007, Adobe Systems has 6,677 employees,[2] 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; and in Hamburg, Germany; Noida, India; and Bangalore, India. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Ottawa (ˈɒtəwə or sometimes /ˈɒtəwɑː/ is the Capital of Canada and the country's fourth largest municipality. Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers The City of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, is an important residential Suburb of Boston, which abuts it on the east San Luis Obispo (sænˈluːɪs əˈbɪspoʊ Spanish for St Louis the Bishop) is a city in California, located roughly midway between San Francisco Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Bangalore ( officially Bengaluru ( Kannada: ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು) is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka.

Since 1995, Fortune has ranked Adobe as an outstanding place to work. Fortune is a Global Business Magazine published by Time Inc's Fortune|Money Group Adobe was rated the fifth-best U. S. company to work for in 2003, sixth in 2004, 31st in 2007 and 40th in 2008. [3]

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History

Adobe Systems headquarters in San Jose, California.
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. In Typography, a typeface is a set of one or more Fonts designed with stylistic unity each comprising a coordinated set of Glyphs A typeface usually comprises 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. TrueType is an Outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe 's Type 1 fonts Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer 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. Adobe Type Manager (ATM is the name of a family of computer programs created and marketed by Adobe Systems for use with their Type 1 fonts WYSIWYG (ˈwɪziwɪg or /ˈwɪzɪwɪg/ is an Acronym for W hat Y ou S ee I s W hat Y ou G 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. OpenType is a scalable format for Computer fonts initially developed by Microsoft, later joined by Adobe Systems.

In the mid-1980s, Adobe entered the consumer software market with Adobe Illustrator, a vector-based drawing program for the Apple Macintosh. Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based drawing program developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points lines, Curves and shapes or Polygon (s which are all based Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc 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. MacDraw was a vector based drawing application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984 In the mathematical field of Numerical analysis, a Bézier curve is a Parametric curve important in Computer graphics and related fields 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. Quickdraw also refers to equipment used for Rock climbing. QuickDraw is the 2D graphics library and associated

In 1989, Adobe introduced what was to become its flagship product, Adobe Photoshop for the Macintosh. flagship is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels a designation given on account of being either the largest fastest newest most heavily armed or for publicity purposes the most well Stable and full-featured, Photoshop 1. 0 was ably marketed by Adobe and soon dominated the market. [4]

Arguably, one of Adobe's few missteps on the Macintosh platform was their failure to develop their own desktop publishing (DTP) program. Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a Personal computer and WYSIWYG page layout Software to create Publication Documents Instead, Aldus with PageMaker in 1985 and Quark with QuarkXPress in 1987 gained early leads in the DTP market. Aldus Corporation (named after the 15th-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius) was the inventor of the groundbreaking PageMaker software a PageMaker was the first Desktop publishing program introduced in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, initially for the Apple Macintosh but soon after also Quark Inc (founded 1981 in Denver Colorado) is a privately owned software company best known for QuarkXPress. QuarkXPress ("Quark" is a computer application for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG environment Adobe was also slow to address the emerging Windows DTP market. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. 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. Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955 is the Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc and former CEO of Pixar Animation NeXT Computer Inc (later NeXT Software Inc) was an American Computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California that

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. Adobe Premiere Pro is a Real-time, timeline based Video editing software application 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. PageMaker was the first Desktop publishing program introduced in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, initially for the Apple Macintosh but soon after also Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and Compositing software published by Adobe Systems. In 1995, Adobe added Adobe FrameMaker, the long-document DTP application, to its production line after Adobe acquired Frame Technology Corp. Adobe FrameMaker is a Desktop publishing (DTP and Word processing application that is popular for large documents In 1999, Adobe introduced Adobe InCopy as a direct competitor to QuarkCopyDesk. Adobe InCopy is a professional word processing software made by Adobe Systems. [5]

Top Competitors

According to Hoovers[6] Adobe's top competitors are:

Company Events

1999

2003

2004

2005

"Formerly Macromedia" logo
"Formerly Macromedia" logo

2006

2007

2008

Corporate Leadership

Executive Board[15]
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. Charles M "Chuck" Geschke (born 1939 is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc John Warnock (b October 6, 1940) is an American Computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Shantanu Narayen is the current CEO of Adobe Systems. Prior to this post he held the role as the President & Chief Operating Officer since 2005 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

Products

Main article: List of Adobe software

Adobe's products include

Financial information

Adobe Systems entered NASDAQ in 1986. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been A list of Adobe Systems products Adobe Creative Suite is a collection of Graphic design, Video editing, and Web development applications made by Adobe Systems. Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro) is a Digital audio editor Computer program from Adobe Systems featuring both a multitrack This article is about the computer programming language For the nuclear reactions see Cold fusion. Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES is a suite of J2EE-based J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition server Software products from Adobe Systems Incorporated PostScript ( PS) is a dynamically typed concatenative Programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982 Adobe Flash (previously called Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a set of Multimedia software created by Macromedia and currently The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. Adobe's 2006 revenues were $2. 575 billion USD. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been [16]

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. Market capitalization/capitalisation (aka market cap, mkt cap or capitalized/capitalised value) is a measurement of Corporate or Economic This list compares various sizes of positive Numbers including counts of things Dimensionless quantity and probabilities. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been 82. [16]

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. [16]

Revenue

2000s

Fiscal year Revenue
2007 $3. 158 billion [17]
2006 $2. 575 billion[18]
2005 $1. 966 billion[18]
2004 $1. 667 billion[19]
2003 $1. 295 billion[20]
2002 $1. 165 billion[20]
2001 $1. 230 billion[21]
2000 $1. 266 billion[22]

1990s

Fiscal year Revenue
1999 $1. 015 billion[22]
1998 $0. 895 billion[23]
1997 $0. 912 billion[23]
1996 $0. 787 billion[23]
1995 $0. 762 billion[23]
1994 $0. 676 billion[23]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Adobe - Company Overview - Hoover's
  2. ^ a b c d Adobe Fast Facts (PDF) (2007-01-15). In 2005, Adobe Systems bought Macromedia. The Adobe Engagement Platform is the announced name of the product line resulting from the merger of Macromedia Adobe Solutions Network (ASN is the official name of the end-user training developer and print service providers authorized by Adobe Systems Inc OpenType is a scalable format for Computer fonts initially developed by Microsoft, later joined by Adobe Systems. PostScript ( PS) is a dynamically typed concatenative Programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982 This article is about the computer programming language For the nuclear reactions see Cold fusion. The Adobe MAX is a large annual event held by Adobe Systems in North America, Europe and Japan. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah 's reign Retrieved on 2007-04-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1025 - Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
  3. ^ 100 Best Companies to Work For 2007.
  4. ^ Hormby, Thomas. How Adobe's Photoshop Was Born. SiliconUser. Retrieved on June 12, 2007.
  5. ^ About Adobe - Press Room - For Immediate Release
  6. ^ You must specify title = and url = when using {{cite web}}. . Retrieved on 2008-06-08. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 536 - St Silverius becomes Pope (probable
  7. ^ Adobe (April 18, 2005). "Adobe to acquire Macromedia". Press release. A news release, media release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded Communication directed at members of the News Retrieved on 2007-03-31. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor
  8. ^ Macromedia (April 18, 2005). "ADOBE TO ACQUIRE MACROMEDIA". Press release. A news release, media release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded Communication directed at members of the News Retrieved on 2007-03-31. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor
  9. ^ Graham, Jefferson. "Adobe buys Macromedia in $3.4B deal", USA Today, April 18, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-03-31. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor  
  10. ^ Adobe acquires Serious Magic. InfoWorld (2006-10-19). InfoWorld is an Information technology online media and events business operating under the umbrella of InfoWorld Media Group a division of IDG (International Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Retrieved on 2008-10-25. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a
  11. ^ Adobe Headquarters Awarded Highest Honors from U.S. Green Building Council.
  12. ^ The Greenest Office in America.
  13. ^ US-CERT email and National Cyber Alert System: Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-352A. US-CERT now United States Department of Homeland Security (December 18, 2007). Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Retrieved on 2007-12-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the
  14. ^ Erik Larson (2008-06-01). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is Assassinated 987 - Hugh Capet is elected Welcome to Acrobat.com - Work. Together. Anywhere.. Adobe. Retrieved on 2008-06-02. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
  15. ^ http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/fastfacts.pdf
  16. ^ a b c Adobe Systems Incorporated Company Profile. Google Finance.
  17. ^ Macsimum News - Adobe announces record revenue
  18. ^ a b adobe.com
  19. ^ adobe.com
  20. ^ adobe.com
  21. ^ a b adobe.com
  22. ^ a b c d e adobe.com

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