{{Infobox Company
| company_name = Adobe Systems Incorporated
| company_logo = [[Image:AdobeSystems.svg|200px|Adobe Systems Logo]]
| company_type = [[Public company|Public]] ({{nasdaq|ADBE}})
| foundation = {{flagicon|United States}} [[Mountain View, California|Mountain View]] (1982)
| location_city = San Jose, California
| location_country = United States of America
| key_people = [[Charles Geschke]], Founder<br />[[John Warnock]], Founder<br />[[Shantanu Narayen]], [[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]]<br />[[Shantanu Narayen]], [[President|Pres.]] & [[Chief Operating Officer|COO]]
| industry = [[Software]] [http://www.hoovers.com/adobe/--ID__12518--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml]
| products = [[List of Adobe software|See complete products listing]]
| revenue = {{profit}} $3.157 billion [[United States dollar|USD]] (2007)
| num_employees = 6,677 (December 2007)<ref name="fastfacts"/>
| homepage = [http://www.adobe.com Adobe.com]
}}
'''Adobe Systems Incorporated''' (pronounced a-DOE-bee {{IPAEng|əˈdoʊbiː}}) ({{nasdaq|ADBE}}) ({{lse|ABS}}) is an [[United States|American]] [[computer]] [[Computer software|software]] company headquartered in [[San Jose, California]], USA.

Adobe was founded in December 1982<ref name="fastfacts"/> 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.|Apple Computer]] licensed PostScript for use in its [[LaserWriter]] [[computer printer|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.<ref name="fastfacts"/> Adobe acquired its former competitor, [[Macromedia]], in December 2005.

As of January 2007, Adobe Systems has 6,677 employees,<ref name="fastfacts">{{cite web
| url = http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/fastfacts.pdf | title = Adobe Fast Facts
| date = 2007-01-15
| accessdate = 2007-04-18
| format = PDF}}</ref> about 40% of whom work in San Jose. Adobe also has major development operations in [[Seattle, Washington]]; [[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.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.greatplacetowork.com/best/list-bestusa-2007.htm
| title = 100 Best Companies to Work For 2007}}</ref>

== History ==
[[Image:Adobe HQ.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Adobe Systems headquarters in [[San Jose, California]].]]
Adobe's first products after PostScript were digital [[Typeface|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, 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|software]] market with [[Adobe Illustrator]], a [[vector graphics|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 curve]]s, 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.<ref name="siliconuser">{{cite web
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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|PageMaker]] in 1985 and [[Quark, Inc.|Quark]] with [[QuarkXPress]] in 1987 gained early leads in the DTP market. Adobe was also slow to address the emerging [[Microsoft Windows|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 rebranded 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.

===Company Events===

====1999====
* Acquired GoLive Systems, Inc. and released [[Adobe GoLive]].
* Shipped [[Adobe InDesign]] as a direct competitor to [[QuarkXPress]].

====2003====
* May: Acquired Syntrillium Software, adding [[Adobe Audition]] to its product line.

====2005====
[[Image:adobe_formerly_macromedia.png|frame|right|120px|"Formerly Macromedia" 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 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.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Adobe to acquire Macromedia
|publisher=Adobe |date=April 18, 2005
|url=http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html
|accessdate=2007-03-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release
|title=ADOBE TO ACQUIRE MACROMEDIA
|publisher=Macromedia
|date=April 18, 2005
|url=http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html
|accessdate=2007-03-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| first =Jefferson
| last = Graham
| title =Adobe buys Macromedia in $3.4B deal
| url =http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-04-18-adobe-macromedia_x.htm?csp=34
| publisher =USA Today
| date =April 18, 2005
| accessdate =2007-03-31}}</ref>

====2006====
* December: The firm's headquarters buildings in San Jose received three [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design]] platinum certifications<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.usgbc.org/News/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?ID=2783
| title = Adobe Headquarters Awarded Highest Honors from U.S. Green Building Council}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url = http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384321/index.htm
| title = The Greenest Office in America}}</ref>.

====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|Apple's]] [[Aperture (photography software)|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]]: [http://www.adobe.com/products/authorware/productinfo/faq/eod 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. No comparable eLearning development tool in terms of capabilities is being offered at this time by Adobe.
* 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 in the Adobe products Flash and Shockwave and in Tar, a [[GNU]] utility. Among the problems addressed are the quite ordinary ability to "execute arbitrary code" and to "gain access to sensitive information" or "cause a denial of service". More surprisingly, the update addressed attackers abilitiy to "surreptitiously initiate a video conference".<ref>{{cite web|title=US-CERT email and National Cyber Alert System: Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-352A|url=http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html|publisher=US-CERT now United States Department of Homeland Security|date=[[December 18]], [[2007]]|accessdate=2007-12-18}}</ref>

==Corporate Leadership==
{| width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
|-
| colspan="2" | '''Executive Board'''
|- valign="top"
| width="150" | [[Charles Geschke|Charles M. Geschke]]
| Co-[[Chairman of the Board]]
|- valign="top"
| width="150" | [[John Warnock|John E. Warnock]]
| Co-Chairman of the Board
|- valign="top"
| width="150" | [[Bruce Chizen]]
| [[CEO]], Director (2005 Compensation: $1.99 M [[United States dollar|USD]])
|- valign="top"
| width="150" | [[Shantanu Narayen]]
| President & Chief Operating Officer (2005 Compensation: $1.08 M [[United States dollar|USD]])
|-

|}

==Products==
{{main|List of Adobe software}}

==Financial information==
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Adobe Systems entered [[NASDAQ]] in 1986. Adobe's 2006 revenues were $2.575 billion [[United States dollar|USD]].<ref name="google">{{cite web | url = http://finance.google.com/finance?q=ADBE | publisher = Google Finance | title = Adobe Systems Incorporated Company Profile }}</ref> As of February 2007, Adobe's [[market capitalization]] is roughly $23 [[1 E9|billion]] [[United States dollar|USD]], and, as of [[August]], [[2007]], its shares are trading on the [[NASDAQ]] for around $40 [[United States dollar|USD]], with a P/E ratio of about 49 and EPS of about $0.82.<ref name="google"/>

===Revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Fiscal year
! Revenue
|-
| 2007
| $3.158 billion <ref>[http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/adobe_announced_record_revenue/]</ref>
|-
| 2006
| $2.575 billion <ref name="Q406Earnings">[http://www.adobe.com/de/aboutadobe/pressroom/pr/dec2006/Q406Earnings.pdf adobe.com]</ref>
|-
| 2005
| $1.966 billion <ref name="Q406Earnings"/>
|-
| 2004
| $1.667 billion <ref>[http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/Q404Earnings.pdf adobe.com]</ref>
|-
| 2003
| $1.295 billion <ref name="outputlinks_Quarterly">[http://outputlinks.com/html/news/news-02387.shtml Adobe Systems Reports Record Quarterly and Annual Revenue]</ref>
|-
| 2002
| $1.165 billion <ref name="outputlinks_Quarterly"/>
|-
| 2001
| $1.230 billion <ref>[http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/pdfs/200212/2002Q4Earnings.pdf adobe.com]</ref>
|-
| 2000
| $1.266 billion <ref name="20001214.adbeq4.pdf">[http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/pdfs/200012/20001214.adbeq4.pdf adobe.com]</ref>
|-
| 1999
| $1.015 billion <ref name="20001214.adbeq4.pdf"/>
|-
| 1998
| $0.895 billion <ref name="Q49810K.pdf">[http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/Q49810K.pdf adobe.com]</ref>
|-
| 1997
| $0.912 billion <ref name="Q49810K.pdf"/>
|-
| 1996
| $0.787 billion <ref name="Q49810K.pdf"/>
|-
| 1995
| $0.762 billion <ref name="Q49810K.pdf"/>
|-
| 1994
| $0.676 billion <ref name="Q49810K.pdf"/>
|}

==See also==
* [[Adobe Engagement Platform]]
* [[Adobe Solutions Network]]
* [[OpenType]]
* [[Portable Document Format|PDF]]
* [[PostScript]]
* [[Adobe ColdFusion]]
* [[Adobe MAX]]

==Notes==
{{reflist|2}}

==References==
* {{cite web
| url = http://worldsbestlogos.blogspot.com/2007/08/adobe-systems-logo-history.html
| title = Adobe Logo History | format = HTML
}}
* {{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
}}
*[http://www.sanjosesemaphore.org 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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