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Adobe Systems Incorporated offers business, creative, and mobile software solutions
that revolutionize how the world engages with ideas and information. Adobe customers include enterprises, knowledge workers, creatives and designers, OEM partners, and developers worldwide.

Corporate Fact sheet
Founded
December 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock
Incorporated
October 1983 in California;
reincorporated in Delaware in May 1997
Stock Symbol
ADBE (NASDAQ)
Initial Public Offering
August 20, 1986 at a split-adjusted share price of $.17
Source of Name
Named after Adobe Creek which ran behind Warnock’s home in Los Altos, California
Corporate Headquarters
San Jose, California, USA
Leadership
Shantanu Narayen, President and
Chief Executive Officer
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
Charles Geschke and John Warnock, Chairmen of the Board
Major Acquisitions
Aldus, 1994
Frame Technology, 1995
GoLive, 1999
Accelio, 2002
Macromedia, Inc., 2005
Revenue
Adobe Fiscal 2007 Revenues: US$3,157.9 billion (FYE Nov. 30, 2007)
Adobe Q4 2007 Revenues: US$911.2
million (quarter ended Nov. 30, 2007)
Employees
Approximately 6,794 worldwide
Market Presence
More than half of Adobe’s revenue is generated outside the United States.
Adobe® Flash® Player and Reader®
software combined are installed on more than 700 million connected PCs and devices worldwide.1
Adobe Reader software is distributed in 26 languages on 10 major platforms worldwide.
The world’s top 10 PC manufacturers ship their systems with PDF technology
pre-installed.
Over 250 million PDF files exist on the web.2
Subsets of PDF such as PDF/Archive
and PDF/X have been ratified by international
standards bodies.
More than 300 million Flash technology-enabled devices have shipped worldwide.
One million designers and developers use Adobe Flash.
Adobe Dreamweaver® software has more than 3 million active users.
More than 90% of creative professionals have Adobe Photoshop® software on their desktops.
Core Technologies and Clients
Portable Document Format (PDF)—Launched in 1993
Published specification used by government
organizations, corporations, and people around the world for more secure, reliable electronic document exchange.
Adobe Reader—Launched in 1993
Free, universal client software that enables users inside and outside the firewall to
interact with electronic documents online or offline.
Adobe Flash Player—Launched in 1996
The world’s most ubiquitous client runtime
for playing rich experiences across major operating systems, browsers, and mobile devices.
Adobe PostScript®—Launched in 1984
Device-independent page description language, built into printers and professional
presses, that powers the reliable output of visually rich documents.
Adobe® Digital Editions 1.0—
Launched in 2007
New software application for purchasing,
managing and reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications, transforming the digital reading experience and offering new creative possibilities for publishers.
Adobe Fast Facts
Adobe Systems Incorporated offers business, creative, and mobile software solutions
that revolutionize how the world engages with ideas and information. Adobe customers include enterprises, knowledge workers, creatives and designers, OEM partners, and developers worldwide.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA
www.adobe.com
© 2008 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Acrobat Connect, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Breeze, Dreamweaver, Flash, FlashCast, Flash Lite, Flex, InDesign, LiveCycle, Macromedia, Photoshop, PostScript, and Reader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Flagship Products
Creative Solutions
Adobe Creative Suite® 3 product line—Launched in 2007
A family of tightly integrated, industry-leading design and development tools for virtually every creative workflow. Adobe Creative Suite 3 is comprised of six editions: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Design Standard editions; Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Web Standard editions; and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, as well as the all-inclusive Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection.
Adobe Photoshop—Launched in 1990
Professional industry standard for digital image editing and creation, and leader of the Photoshop digital imaging line.
Adobe InDesign®—Launched in 1999
Professional layout and design software that delivers swift production workflows, a fluid creative environment, and
sophisticated graphics and typography.
Adobe Premiere® Pro—Launched in 1991
Powerful, frame-accurate, real-time digital video and audio editing software.
Adobe After Effects®—Launched in 1993
Essential motion graphics and visual effects tool for digital video production work.
Adobe Flash—Launched in 1996
The industry’s most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, engaging digital experiences, and high-impact mobile content.3
Adobe Dreamweaver—Launched in 1997
Industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications.4
Knowledge Worker Solutions
Adobe Acrobat®—Launched in 1993
Family of products that provide business, technical, and creative professionals a flexible, reliable, and more secure way to share and collaborate on intelligent documents.
Adobe Acrobat® Connect™—
Launched in 20035
High-impact online conferencing and collaborative
web communications solution that everyone can access instantly.
Enterprise and Developer Solutions
Adobe LiveCycle®—Launched in 2004
A family of server products for the enterprise
that automates and simplifies the flow of information and securely extends business processes beyond the firewall.
Adobe Flex™—Launched in 2003
Familiar, standards-based programming
framework and powerful set of building blocks for creating a richer, more responsive presentation tier for enterprise applications.
Mobile Solutions
Adobe Flash Lite™—Launched in 2002
Flash profile specifically developed
for mobile phones.
Adobe FlashCast™—Launched in 2004
End-to-end solution to meet the demand for compelling, consistently updated,
easy-to-use mobile data services.
Adobe Reader® LE—Launched in 2004
Universal client software optimized for interacting with Adobe PDF documents on mobile devices.
Select Industry Recognition
#40 best company to work for in America (FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” 2008).
#24 Great Places to Work India (Grow
Talent Company Ltd./Businessworld, 2006).
#2 software company in America’s Most Admired Companies 2006 (Fortune, 2006).
#19 in the BusinessWeek 50 (BusinessWeek’s “50 Top Performers,” 2007).
#19 Most Generous Company (In-Kind Giving); #29 Most Generous Company
(Cash Giving) (BusinessWeek, 2004).
First commercial enterprise to be awarded three Platinum certifications under the US Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-
Existing Building (LEED®) program.
Financial information can be found on Adobe’s Investor Relations site at http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/
invrelations/.
Additional information regarding Adobe’s executive team can be found on the Executive Profiles page at http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/
executivebios/.
1 Based on a U.S. Sample. Total player penetration is a calculation of the total number of web users, divided by the resulting percentage from an NPD survey.
2 Google search, January 2007
3 JPR Digital Content Creation Report 2005; Streaming Advertising and Subscription Media 2003-2006
4 NPD Techworld, May 2005
5 Originally launched as Macromedia® Breeze®