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Adobe Puts Its Muscle Behind Apollo
News Adobe Systems plans to spend $100m (£50m) in venture funding to promote its software development platforms, with a particular focus on Apollo, which allows people to run web applications without a browser.
[October 26, 2006, 11:30]
Adobe Calls A Halt To FreeHand
News It should come as no surprise, but Adobe Systems has officially declared an end to development of FreeHand illustration software and is trying to coax users to its rival Illustrator package. After a long and storied career, Adobe (née Altsys, Aldus...
[May 17, 2007, 11:25]
Adobe's Apollo Platform Goes Beta
News Also on Monday, Adobe plans to release the beta of Flex 3, its software development tool that can now be used for writing AIR applications in addition to Flash and HTML-based web applications. Adobe Systems on Monday plans to release a beta version...
[June 11, 2007, 8:13]
Apollo Helps Adobe Compete With Ajax
News The word processor, called Buzzword, runs in Adobe's Flash and is built using Flex 2.0, Adobe's development software for writing rich internet applications. The company tried to write a prototype using a range of development technologies but...
[March 23, 2007, 8:55]
Adobe Releases Flash And Flex Upgrades
News Adobe Systems on Wednesday plans to release upgrades to its Flash Player software and Flex development tool for building Web applications. In tandem with the Flash Player 9 release, Adobe is making its Flex 2 product line available, including a...
[June 28, 2006, 10:00]
Adobe And Macromedia: Making Microsoft Sweat?
News The news that Adobe is to buy Macromedia - subject to the usual provisos like shareholder and regulatory approval - marks the biggest ever deal in the content creation and Web development sector. Adobe has confirmed the latest Linux version of its...
[April 18, 2005, 14:50]
Start-ups Make Flash And PDF Simpler
News Such files are more compact for transferring by email and can be read by any device loaded with the free Adobe Reader software. San Diego-based EHelp on Monday released a new version of RoboPDF, an application intended to allow ordinary office...
[June 10, 2003, 10:34]
Adobe Looks Towards Linux
News Adobe wants to hire a director of Linux market development to "identify and evaluate strategies for Adobe in the Linux and open-source desktop market" and to identify projects that "will help improve Linux as a desktop environment.
[November 3, 2004, 13:43]
Adobe Plans To Open-source Flex
News Adobe already offers the Flex software development kit for free and provides the source code. Adobe Systems plans to open-source Flex, its development framework for building Flash and Apollo-based applications.
[April 26, 2007, 10:12]
Microsoft's Great Developer Hunt
News Adobe has invested in more robust Flash authoring tools called Flex and has aligned itself with Eclipse, an open source modular equivalent to Microsoft's flagship development tool Visual Studio which is popular with Java programmers.
[March 28, 2006, 17:15]
Adobe Brings Apollo To Light
News Lynch noted that Adobe's upcoming Creative Suite 3, slated for release later this month, will also allow people to create Apollo content because Adobe has created more integration between applications such as Illustrator and its Dreamweaver web...
[March 19, 2007, 9:15]
Microsoft Moves Flash Rival Into Spotlight
News Brightcove will continue to build all its software, including tools that enable content providers to upload video to the Brightcove service, using Adobe's Flash and Flex development tools, Berrey said.
[April 17, 2007, 12:26]
Adobe Open Sources BlazeDS
News Several Adobe developer tools are already set to be open sourced, such as the Flex 3 software development kit (SDK). This in turn is part of Adobe LiveCycle ES, a suite of Java 2 Enterprise Edition-based server software products.
[December 17, 2007, 9:34]
Microsoft Squares Up To Adobe With Design Suite
News But in the market for standalone web-development tools, market research firm NDP Group says Microsoft is substantially behind Adobe, which makes the popular Dreamweaver tool. That's the interesting race: can Adobe convince enough people to use Flex...
[December 5, 2006, 8:49]
Sony Ericsson To Bridge Flash And Java
News Next week at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, the company will demonstrate Project Capuchin, which will allow software developers to create applications for mobile phones that can use pieces of both Java ME and Adobe's Flash Lite.
[May 1, 2008, 11:03]
IBM Looks For Workplace Desktop Success
News Specifically, Adobe intends to add collaborative review and server-based management of PDF documents by integrating with Workplace, said Harry Vitelli, vice-president of business development at Adobe.
[November 24, 2004, 7:50]
Code Exchanges: We Got That Open-source Feelin'
News While many software publishers have abandoned such forums for a variety of legal and business concerns, Macromedia, Adobe Systems and a few others have persisted, creating an interesting middle ground between closed, proprietary development models...
[June 14, 2004, 10:30]
Microsoft Betting On The Tablet PC
News One Microsoft competitor, Adobe Systems, which bought Microsoft eBook Reader competitor Glassbook this summer, is also working on its own tablet software, said Len Kawell, director of Adobe's eBook Development Group.
[November 7, 2000, 7:30]
Australian Linux Community Dismisses SuSE Injunction
News Early in 2001, Linux Web communities and news portals were dominated by news that Adobe had taken legal action against a group of students within the German jurisdiction for using the word "Illustrator" in the title of a graphics application it...
[January 9, 2002, 11:48]
Adobe Acquires Web Word-processor Buzzword
News The company's strategy is to assemble a series of collaboration products and services on top of its development platform, said Erik Larson, director of marketing and product management at Adobe. John Doyle, CommuniGate Systems' vice president of...
[October 1, 2007, 8:58]
