Latest news from Adobe
OK, so I'm pretty behind with keeping ARena up to date, but then who isn't behind with their blogging?
I've been out and about a recently. I was at the Flash on the Beach event in Brighton and the JavaPolis event in Antwerp recently. Both very interesting events for different reasons.
I was only at these events for one day, so i didn't get to see too much, but a couple of highlights are:
Flash on The Beach - The Adobe speakers at this event demo'd some great Apollo and Flex applications Whilst this isn't from FOTB, it does show how Apollo will be integrating Flash, Flex, HTML and PDF technologies!
JavaPolis - It was great to see thousands of Java developers getting excited about what Flex can do to help them create rich and "engaging" applications using both Java and Flex technologies. Now I'm no developer - which I guess is why I work marketing, but after James Ward from Adobe demonstrated how Flex can integrate with Hibernate and Spring I thought I really ought to give Flex a go. That's a little project for me over Christmas - depending on what else Santa brings I guess!
Anyway, as a pre-Christmas treat, here is an update on some of the latest news from Adobe...
Adobe Releases Beta Version of Photoshop CS3 - I don't normally blog about the "creative" products from Adobe (let me know if you want me to), but this is pretty big news. Adobe has posted the beta of our next version of Photoshop (mac and windows) to allow customers to test drive the product and to more easier see how the next version of Photoshop will perform on the latest hardware platforms, particularly the MacTel platform!
Adobe Reports Record Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 Revenue - Adobe reported Q4FY06 revenues of $682.2million and FY06 revenues of £2.575billion - a 31% increase year-on-year. Lifted from the press release, Bruce Chizen, Adobe chief executive officer, said, “Fiscal 2006 was another year of solid financial performance for Adobe. We generated record revenue, and for the fourth consecutive year, achieved double digit revenue growth. At the same time, we successfully integrated Macromedia, leveraging our combined assets to provide platform-level solutions that redefine the way people engage with ideas and information.”
We had some great customer wins across the business and across the world - I'll provide more detailed write-ups in the new year.
Adobe Delivers Acrobat Connect Product Line for Instantaneous Web Conferencing - I know I'm (obviously) totally partisan when talking about Adobe products, but Connect is great. Every time I use it I'm totally blown away by the "richness" of the experience - and it always provokes a "WOW" reaction from people using it for the first time.
Adobe Announces Availability of Adobe Reader 8 - "enables trusted information exchange between enterprises, government agencies, constituents and consumers who view, print, search, digitally sign and collaborate with PDF files. Adobe Reader 8 also features a new “Start Meeting” button that launches Adobe Acrobat Connect session". It has got a great new UI also!
So, something for everyone hopefully!