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Where does it make all this money on? The article just mentions that they make Photoshop, Acrobat and Flash..and the Adobe press release doesn't provide any add

by latch 16y ago

Where does it make all this money on? The article just mentions that they make Photoshop, Acrobat and Flash..and the Adobe press release doesn't provide any additional information.

windsurfer 16y ago
I work on Adobe LiveCycle, which is an enterprisey do-everything suite. The creative suite software is still the biggest seller at Adobe, though.
guelo 16y ago
CS, PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier, Flash, Dreamweaver, Scene 7, Macromedia Studio, After Effects, Go Live: 542.1 mill Acrobat, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Flex: 274.1 mill Omniture: 98.4 mill PostScript, FrameMaker, PageMaker, Macromedia Contribute, Macromedia Captivate, Macromedia FreeHand: 47.3 mill PDF & Flash Platform Revenue: 46.1 mill
- latch 16y ago
  Damn, none of the big stuff (the creative products) seem like particularly easy markets to compete. Acrobat might represent the best opportunity, but that thing is ingrained.
- initself 16y ago
  I look at this list and I am thrilled that I don't have to use a single one of these. I'm not even friends with anyone that does, except a couple of photographers. I'd love to know how much of the 46.1 million of the "PDF & Flash Platform Revenue" and the 274.1 million of the "Acrobat, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Flex" is purely PDF related. How many people are buying Adobe Acrobat just to edit PDFs, documents that should be source code but aren't? I just hate it when digital things become analog (or virtually analog, like PDF) and I doubly hate it that tools get built for editing the now analog digital document. Like OCR for Faxes, UGH!
  - biot 16y ago
    Newest piece from The Onion: "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Use Adobe Products"
- icco 16y ago
  Do you have a source for your numbers? I've heard it being much more skewed towards Acrobat, so I'm curious if that's just old data or what.
  - guelo 16y ago
    It's the latest data from their q4'10 earnings report, specifically this pdf http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/q410_ir_datasheet.pdf http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/q410_ir_da...

by latch 16y ago

Where does it make all this money on? The article just mentions that they make Photoshop, Acrobat and Flash..and the Adobe press release doesn't provide any additional information.

windsurfer 16y ago

I work on Adobe LiveCycle, which is an enterprisey do-everything suite. The creative suite software is still the biggest seller at Adobe, though.

guelo 16y ago

CS, PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier, Flash, Dreamweaver, Scene 7, Macromedia Studio, After Effects, Go Live: 542.1 mill Acrobat, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Flex: 274.1 mill Omniture: 98.4 mill PostScript, FrameMaker, PageMaker, Macromedia Contribute, Macromedia Captivate, Macromedia FreeHand: 47.3 mill PDF & Flash Platform Revenue: 46.1 mill

latch 16y ago
Damn, none of the big stuff (the creative products) seem like particularly easy markets to compete. Acrobat might represent the best opportunity, but that thing is ingrained.
initself 16y ago
I look at this list and I am thrilled that I don't have to use a single one of these. I'm not even friends with anyone that does, except a couple of photographers. I'd love to know how much of the 46.1 million of the "PDF & Flash Platform Revenue" and the 274.1 million of the "Acrobat, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Flex" is purely PDF related. How many people are buying Adobe Acrobat just to edit PDFs, documents that should be source code but aren't? I just hate it when digital things become analog (or virtually analog, like PDF) and I doubly hate it that tools get built for editing the now analog digital document. Like OCR for Faxes, UGH!
- biot 16y ago
  Newest piece from The Onion: "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Use Adobe Products"
icco 16y ago
Do you have a source for your numbers? I've heard it being much more skewed towards Acrobat, so I'm curious if that's just old data or what.
- guelo 16y ago
  It's the latest data from their q4'10 earnings report, specifically this pdf http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/q410_ir_datasheet.pdf http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/q410_ir_da...