Adobe Systems

Foundation Year
  •  December, 1982
Founders
  •  John Warnorck
  • Chuck Geschke
Taglines
  •  Better by adobe - 2004
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Dec 1982 - Jan 1990. Designed by Marva Warnock, John Warnock's wife.
an 1990 -1992. Introduced by Luanne Seymour Cohen to allow for easier printing at small sizes.
Jan 1992 to till date.

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    Did you know that the company is named after the creek that ran behind John's home in Los Altos, CA and that until 2007 the company has acquired about 30 companies. Below is the list of the companies for your quick reference.
    1. 1991 Emerald City Software, creator of Type Font-manipulation software
    2. 1992 OCR Systems
    3. 1994 Laser Tools
    4. 1995 Visualware
    5. 1995 Hyphen, a printer software company
    6. 1995 Ceneca Communication, a PageMill and SiteMill website-creation software.
    7. 1995 Frame Technology
    8. 1996 Swell Software, a webserver software company
    9. 1996 Ares Software, a font-scaling software company
    10. 1997 DigiDox, a personalized PDF-creation software company
    11. 1997 FinePont, a company that provides Web graphics software for ImageReady.
    12. 1999 Attitude Software, a 3D technologies company
    13. 1999 GoLive Systems and CyberStudio, Machintosh-only web authoring tool.
    14. 1999 Photomerge, a photostitching software for panoramic images.
    15. 2000 Glassbook, a company that creates software for creating, reading and deploying eBooks.
    16. 2001 Fotiva, a digital photography software company.
    17. 2002 Accelio, leading provider of Web-enabled solutions that help customers manage business processes driven by electronic forms.
    18. 2003 Syntrillium, digital audio tools
    19. 2003 Yellow Dragon Technology, a developer of xml messaging and metagata management software.
    20. 2004 Q-Link, aleading innovator in business process management software
    21. 2004 OKYZ, makers of 3D collaboration software
    22. 2005 Macromedia
    23. 2006 FineLine Digital Rights Management division of Navisware,
    24. 2006 Trade and Technologies France, it specializes in the interoperability between CAD systems and Multi CAD Digital Mockup, allowing for data compatability between CAD systems
    25. 2006 Pixmantec Technology, digital imaging software
    26. 2006 InterAKT, develops tools for creating web-content management, intranet and e-commerce application
    27. 2006 Actimagine Technology, a company that develops, patents and licenses software solutions in the field of video and interactive vector graphics.
    28. 2006 Serious Magic, makers of Visual Communicator and video blogging application, Vlog It!
    29. 2007 Antepo, Inc and  Amicima Technology
    30. 2007 Scene7, which makes an image processing and display platform used in many retail sites on the web.
    You can get more information about the company from Adobe.
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