About Adobe
The Adobe is founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke Adobe is an American computer software company with its headquarters in San Jose, California, United States. Adobe played a significant role in sparking the desktop publishing revolution when Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in the Laser Writer printer product line in 1985. The company name Adobe comes from the Adobe Creek, which ran behind the house of one of the company's founders. Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in December 2005.
With $2.575 billion revenues and about 5,879 employees working in the company Adobe has major development operations in Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California; NOIDA and Bangalore in India; and Ottawa, Canada. Recently, Adobe has entered the Software Development Industry with the introduction of Adobe Flex Technologies. Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. The company's award winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people anywhere at anytime.
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe Production Studio (Premium)
- Adobe Production Studio (Standard)
- Macromedia Studio
- Adobe Flash Player
- Adobe Page Maker
- Adobe Reader
- Digital Negative Specification
- Adobe Live Cycle Designer
- Adobe In Copy
- Adobe Frame Maker
Adobe Labs provides you with the opportunity to experience and evaluate new and emerging innovations, technologies, and products from Adobe. Labs fosters a collaborative software development process. This allows customers to become productive with new products and technologies faster and the Adobe development teams to respond and react to early feedback in order to shape the software in a way that meets the needs and expectations of the community.
In the mid-1980s, soon after introducing PostScript, Adobe entered the consumer software market with Adobe Illustrator, a vector-based drawing program for the Apple Macintosh. Illustrator described all shapes with more flexible Bézier curves, providing a level of accuracy not seen in other programs. In 1989, it introduced what was to become its flagship product, Adobe Photo shop for the Macintosh. In 1996, the company, in combination with Microsoft, announced the Open Type font format, and in 2003 Adobe completed the conversion of its library of Type 1 fonts to Open Type.
Fortune magazine has ranked Adobe as an outstanding place to work. Adobe was rated the fifth best American company to work for in 2003 and sixth best in 2004. Most recently it was ranked 31st in the 2007 Fortune Best Companies to Work For list.
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