Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is a computer software company that develops and markets the Adobe Creative Cloud and Creative Suite series of multimedia and creativity software products and services.
History[]
Adobe's PostScript was part of the original LaserWriter in 1985.
Adobe Systems was founded in December 1982 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. Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs visited Adobe during its early days and convinced them to adapt PostScript to run on a laser printer. Jobs then had Apple invest $2.5 million in Adobe for a 19% stake. This investment helped Adobe to become profitable quickly. However, the high royalty fees that Adobe charged for PostScript soon caused friction with Apple as it kept LaserWriter printers very expensive.[1][2] After Adobe resisted pleas from Apple to reduce licensing costs and began selling PostScript to other printer manufacturers that undercut the LaserWriter line, Apple dumped their remaining 15% stake in Adobe.[1][3]
The company became a Delaware corporation on May 9, 1997. Effective as of October 8, 2018 at 4PM EDT, the name of the company was changed to Adobe Inc.[4]
Acquisitions[]
The company grew over the years through a series of strategic acquisitions.
- Accelio (April 15, 2002)
- Aldus Corporation (August 31, 1994)
- Company of Science and Art (July 1993)
- Silicon Beach Software (February 1990)
- Ceneca Communications (September 1995)
- Day Software (October 29, 2010)
- EchoSign (July 18, 2011)
- Emerald City Software (March 26, 1990)
- Fotiva (December 5, 2001)
- Frame Technology (October 30, 1995)
- Glassbook (August 2000)
- GoLive Systems (January 4, 1999)
- Macromedia (December 3, 2005)
- Altsys (January 1995)
- Allaire Corporation (March 20, 2001)
- Andromedia (December 1, 1999)
- eHelp Corporation (October 24, 2003)
- Elemental Software (1999)
- iBand (March 13, 1996)
- Fauve Software (September 1995)
- FutureWave Software (December 1996)
- OSC (November 1995)
- Presedia (January 2003)
- Sōlis (October 3, 1997)
- Magento (June 19, 2018)
- Mixamo (June 1, 2015)
- Nitobi Software (October 25, 2011)
- Omniture (October 23, 2009)
- Serious Magic (October 19, 2006)
- Syntrillium Software (May 2003)
- Typekit Inc. (October 2011)
Logo[]
The Adobe logo was designed by Marva Warnock, wife of company co-founder John Warnock. Since 1982, some variation of this design has been used to represent the company.[5]
Products[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Adobe-Apple war on Flash reminiscent of PostScript struggle by Daniel Eran Dilger, AppleInsider. 2010-05-14.
- ↑ Menuez, Doug. "Fearless genius : the digital revolution in Silicon Valley, 1985-2000", Atria Books, pp. 45.
- ↑ A History of TrueType, TrueType Typography. Accessed 2019-12-11.
- ↑ Certificate of amendment to restated certificate of incorporation of Adobe Systems Incorporated (PDF) by Dana Rao, EVP General Counsel and Corporate Secretary; Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. 2018-10-08.
- ↑ ADOBE LOGO, 1000logos. Accessed 2019-09-05.
External links[]
- Adobe official website
- Adobe (archived 1996-10-22)
- Adobe History timeline (2002-07-09)
- Adobe official Twitter
- Adobe official YouTube channel
- Open@Adobe at SourceForge
- Adobe Corporation at Silicon Valley Historical Association (2008)
- Adobe Inc. by Henry R. Norr at Encyclopædia Britannica
- Adobe Inc. at the Adobe Wiki
- Adobe Inc. at the Macromedia Wiki
- Adobe Inc. and List of acquisitions by Adobe at Wikipedia
