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November 17th, 2009
Adobe CTO: Flash in the future
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the company’s Flash software is coming to new devices such as game consoles, smartphones, and TVs. Lynch says Adobe is working with chip vendors and TV manufacturers on a variety of different television platforms to bring more interactivity to the living room.
November 17th, 2009
Adobe releases Flash, AIR betas; Gauging the potential of multi-touch on the desktop
Adobe on Tuesday released the beta versions of its AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 software and the company includes multi-touch support to “bring innovations and optimizations from mobile devices to the desktop.”
Most of the multi-touch talk around Adobe revolves around future mobile support (statement). However, multi-touch has a role on the desktop too. For instance, HP on Monday announced a software development program for its TouchSmart PCs and digital signage displays. HP launched a developer portal and development kit to create things like touch enabled Netflix and Hulu.
The big question: If companies like Adobe and HP build multi-touch support for the desktop will the applications come?
Thinking out loud you could see a bevy of possibilities. Perhaps apps are built for the desktop so information is pushed to you (the revenge of PointCast anyone?) Or the multi-touch support just means we ultimately do away with the mouse in select Rich Internet Applications (RIA). And then there are a lot of commercial applications.
Adobe’s platform is appealing, but it’s in a race to stay ahead of advances in HTML. Multi-touch support could keep it ahead of the race, but we’ll see how things play out on the desktop.
November 10th, 2009
Adobe cuts 680 jobs
Adobe said Tuesday that it will cut 680 full-time positions by the end of its fiscal year.
The company said it will take a $65 million to $71 million restructuring charge. That charge includes consolidation of leased facilities and severance.
According to Adobe, the restructuring only applies to employees of the company before the acquisition of Omniture.
On November 10, 2009, we announced a workforce reduction to appropriately align our costs in connection with our 2010 operating plan (the “Restructuring Plan”). As a result, we expect to eliminate approximately 680 full-time positions worldwide. We expect to record in the aggregate approximately $65.0 to $71.0 million in pre-tax restructuring charges associated with this Restructuring Plan. Included in these charges are (i) approximately $17.0 to $19.0 million primarily related to the consolidation of leased facilities and (ii) approximately $48.0 to $52.0 million related to employee severance arrangements. We expect to record approximately $18.0 to $20.0 million of these charges in the fourth fiscal quarter ended November 27, 2009. We expect to complete the majority of the activities related to the Restructuring Plan by the end of fiscal 2010. Substantially all of these charges will result in cash expenditures.
October 26th, 2009
Salesforce, Adobe bring Flash to Force.com
Businesses who have already taken the plunge into the Salesforce cloud will find something new this morning: Adobe Flash.
The two companies today announced an alliance that brings the power of the Adobe Flash platform to the Salesforce’s Force.com, where developers build - and many times share - business apps for the cloud. Through the partnership, the companies said they are are offering developers a way to build rich Internet applications in the cloud.
The apps built using Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com can easily be deployed to users through the browser using the Adobe Flash® Player or directly to the desktop via Adobe AIR. In a joint statement, the companies further said:
This tight integration enables client-side data management and synchronization between cloud and client, simplifying the development of applications that seamlessly run online or offline across operating systems and devices, while taking full advantage of the proven scalability, security and reliability of the Force.com platform. Developers can use Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com to extend or enhance existing Salesforce CRM implementations and custom-built Force.com applications, or build entirely new applications to provide customized user experiences for any business need.
Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com is available today as a developer preview. The full release is expected to be released in the first half of 2010. The companies have also put together a brief (14 minutes) video demonstrating the building of an app on the new platform.
October 5th, 2009
Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loom
Adobe’s announcements that a full version of Flash is coming to every smartphone not named Apple iPhone leave me conflicted. Full-blown Flash can be a boon to the mobile Web, but has the potential to become one huge security headache.
First the happy talk (Techmeme, Adobe statement): A public beta of Flash Player 10.1 will be coming to Windows Mobile and Palm’s WebOS later this year. Next year will bring Flash betas to Google Android and Symbian phones. Research in Motion is also working with Adobe. Multi-touch Flash, accelerometer perks and other mobile goodies abound.
And from an tech vendor art of war perspective, Adobe’s news that full Flash capabilities are coming to Windows Mobile phones, Palm, RIM and Google Android phones is very interesting. Apple is the last mobile handset holdout when it comes to Flash adoption. Sure, the two parties are kind of sorta talking about Flash on the iPhone—and have been for months—but the effort isn’t going anywhere. Can Adobe force iPhone adoption by delivering up a Flash-powered mobile utopia on the small screen?
And then you trip over the big honking negative: Security. From a user perspective, Flash your mobile phone may be nice, but can also be a big drag. The patches, the vulnerabilities, the frequent upgrades and the potential monoculture headaches. Monoculture for our purposes refers to one dominant technology that pervades multiple fronts. Windows is a monoculture. Flash is a monoculture. Anything that’s a standard is a monoculture. The problem with monocultures: You can attack them and cause a lot of collateral damage because there’s no diversity.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes nails it when he handicaps Adobe’s Open Screen Project that will be bringing full Flash to a mobile phone throughout 2010.
Flash Player is an absolute security nightmare on desktop PCs, and requiring endless updates. I’m not sure how thrilled I’d be to be faced with Flash Player updates on my smartphone every time I was to go browsing. If I’m paying per MB, on a dodgy connection (and chances are that one, if not both of these factors will come into play), I’d be even more upset. I know that the modern web relies heavily on Flash, but this announcement worries me because it’s creating a huge tech monoculture that’s ripe for attack. Unless Adobe is planning on beefing up security, this could be one of the worst things to happen to smartphone users.
Don’t believe Adrian. Check out the Flash vulnerability fiesta from Ryan Naraine and Dancho Danchev. Flash remains unpatched by most users, is frequently open to attack and outfits like Mozilla Firefox are trying to push folks to patch Flash for the greater good.
How many of you have bothered to patch anything on your mobile phone? Thought so.
And now we’re taking Flash to every screen. For Adobe, full-featured Flash on every mobile phone is huge. The rest of us may not be as thrilled about today’s happenings once the mundane processes such as frequent Flash patches take over.
September 29th, 2009
Adobe CEO Narayen joins Dell board
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen was appointed to Dell’s board of directors.
Dell said in a statement that Narayen will replace Bank of America executive Sallie Krawcheck. Narayen’s appointment is effective immediately. Krawcheck is resigning to focus on being president of Global Wealth and Investment Management for Bank of America.
Narayen will expertise to help Dell deliver better information technology products and services. Narayen will face a formal vote at Dell’s next shareholder meeting.
September 16th, 2009
The Adobe-Omniture deal: Does it make sense?
Adobe made a big splash with its $1.8 billion acquisition of Web analytics company Omniture. However, the logic behind the deal isn’t exactly obvious.
On Adobe’s fiscal third quarter conference call, analysts were pressing Adobe on its rationale for buying Omniture (Techmeme). The logic, according to CEO Shantanu Narayen goes like this:
September 15th, 2009
Adobe to acquire Omniture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer'
Adobe Systems said Tuesday that it will acquire Omniture, which offers Web analytics, measurement and optimization technologies, in a cash deal that’s valued at about $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share of Omniture. That adds up to a premium of about 45 percent over Omniture’s average closing price over the last month.
The aim: Create an “end to end platform to transform digital media and advertising,” said Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe, on a conference call. The company said the Omniture purchase was made to diversify Adobe’s revenue stream going forward. Adobe added that it expects Omniture to boost long-term revenue growth with existing products and new jointly developed services. There will be little cost synergies.
“Adobe plus Omniture will close the loop” from content creation and returns, said Narayen. Adobe said it would offer more details about the Omniture plans at its analyst meeting Oct. 7.
The deal (statement) puts Adobe in an interesting position for growth. It basically means that the Adobe software tools that are used by content creators - software tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Acrobat and Dreamweaver - will soon find themselves embedded with additional tools to enhance that content, specifically the monetization of that content by measuring its reach and effectiveness, among other things. In a statement, the company explained it this way:
For designers, developers and online marketers, an integrated workflow — with optimization capabilities embedded in the creation tools — will streamline the creation and delivery of relevant content and applications. This optimization will enable advertisers, advertising agencies, publishers and e-tailers to achieve greater ROI from their digital media investments and improve their end users’ experiences.
Here’s Adobe’s game plan in a graphic:
Narayen called the deal a “game-changer” for both Adobe and its customers because it enables advertisers, media companies and e-tailers to “realize the full value of their digital assets.”
Adobe said Omniture will become a new business unit within Adobe and that CEO Josh James will join Adobe as senior vice president of the new business unit and report to Narayen. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to close before the end of this quarter.
The announcement came moments after Adobe released its financial results for the third quarter. (Statement) For the quarter, the company reported income of $237.1 million, or 35 cents per share, down from a year ago but flat from the second quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $697.5 million, down from the $887.3 million reported for the year ago quarter, as well as the $704.7 million reported in Q2. Analysts had been expecting 34 cents per share on sales of $686.2 million. In a statement, Narayen said:
We are pleased with the solid revenue and earnings results we were able to deliver in Q3. Our focus remains on driving growth in our core businesses, as well as investing in promising new opportunities.
Shares of Adobe were up slightly in regular trading, closing at $35.62. but were slipping in after-hours trading, down more than 4 percent.
August 31st, 2009
Adobe acquires Business Catalyst, GoodBarry
Adobe Systems has agreed to acquire Business Catalyst, maker of e-commerce software suite GoodBarry, for an undisclosed amount.
Despite no official announcement by Adobe, the Australian-American company has published a brief Q&A on its site about the acquisition. According to that information, Business Catalyst’s management team, pricing, products and partner agreements will remain unchanged.
While Business Catalyst serves web professionals, the GoodBarry sub-brand serves “web-savvy DIYers.” The GoodBarry brand — “simply a Business Catalyst brand set up for our retail operations,” the announcement says — will be shut down as of October 1, 2009. GoodBarry and its customers will be merged under the Business Catalyst name.
June 16th, 2009
Adobe's quarter, outlook on target
Adobe’s fiscal second quarter results were in line with expectations, but earnings and sales were down from a year ago.
The company reported second quarter earnings of $126.1 million, or 24 cents a share, down from $214.9 million, or 40 cents a share a year ago (statement). Excluding items, Adobe reported earnings of 35 cents a share, in line with Wall Street estimates. Adobe’s revenue for the second quarter was $704.7 million, down from $886.9 million a year ago.
As for the outlook, Adobe projected third quarter revenue of $665 million to $715 million with operating margins between 20.5 percent to 25.5 percent. Earnings excluding items are projected to be 30 cents a share to 37 cents a share for the second quarter. That’s also in line with expectations for third quarter earnings of 33 cents a share.
By the numbers:
- Americas revenue was 45 percent of revenue in the quarter with Europe, Middle East and Africa representing 33 percent. Asia revenue was 24 percent of the second quarter total.
- Adobe ended the quarter with 7,437 employees, up from 7,173 in the first quarter.
- And sales by category.
Among the notable slides from Adobe’s investor handout:
Flash’s standing on mobile devices.
And Acrobat revenue annualized.
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June 3rd, 2009
Adobe previews BrowserLab, a handy Web browser testing tool
Adobe on Wednesday launched a preview of BrowserLab, a hosted service that allows Web designers to test pages in various browsers and operating systems.
While the tool may not apply to everyone, it’s certainly handy for any Web pro. These types of tools will increasingly matter as the browser’s importance grows amid software as a service, rich Internet applications and other advances.
In a nutshell, BrowserLab gives designers a real-time screenshot of pages and highlights compatibility issues in IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
A few key facts about BrowserLab (Techmeme, Adobe statement):
- It supports IE 6.x and 7.x;
- Firefox 2.x and 3.x;
- Safari 3.x.
- BrowserLab is hosted in the cloud using virtualization tools.
- One key omission is Google Chrome, which for now is available on Windows.
Adobe says that BrowserLab can be used by any designer, but it features the most capability as an extension to Dreamweaver CS4. The BrowserLab preview available now in English. Other languages are planned later.
May 20th, 2009
Video technology gets boost from Elemental
There’s a lot of computing power that goes into processing video for playback on a growing list of devices - from TV screens and laptop computers to mobile phones and portable gaming systems. But much of that work is not only unnecessary but also a waste of energy, computing power and money, according to the executives at Elemental Technologies.
The company has developed massively parallel video processing solutions – which basically utilizes both the central processing units and the graphics processing units to simultaneously work on formatting the video. The idea is that graphics chips are better equipped to handle some of the jobs involved and can lighten some of the demand on the CPU, speeding up the process.
Today, the company is announcing the beta release of an appliance – called the Elemental Server – which would reside in the data center of broadcasters, studios, online video platforms and major web video publishers, enabling them to quickly process video clips for playback anywhere the viewer wants to see it. The server will have two Intel microprocessors and four Nvidia graphics chips. The company also licenses the software, without the appliance, for customers who choose to go that route.
April 20th, 2009
Adobe's Flash: Coming to a TV (and living room) near you
Adobe said Monday that it is taking its Flash software, which is commonly used for Web video, to TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.
And Adobe has a big chunk of the industry including Comcast, Disney, Netflix and others lined up behind Flash (Techmeme, statement). The first Flash optimized devices will be available in the second half of the year. Adobe is expected to demonstrate its technology at the NAB conference in Las Vegas.
Dubbed the “Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home”, Adobe is making a play to be a standard in the living room. What’s notable here is that a common technology and player may allow for video content to hop across screens. Adobe is already a dominant player for Web video.
A few key points:
- Intel’s Media Processor CE 3100 will optimize Flash technology on its system on a chip for consumer electronics.
- Adobe launched an effort called Strobe, which is an open standard of software components to create players and customize them (statement).
- The digital living room invasion is a coup for Adobe, which is increasingly seeing competition on the Web from Microsoft’s Silverlight. Silverlight has been used to stream big events like the Olympics and NCAA basketball tournament, which is broadcast by ZDNet parent CBS.
April 14th, 2009
Seven big tech acquisitions to watch for in 2009
In this economy, cash is king. Since in the end of 2008, big tech companies have been stuffing cash under their mattresses in case the current recession goes longer and deeper than expected. Even companies with strong balance sheets have been cutting costs, laying off workers, and scaling back projects in order to build up their war chests.
As a result, you have companies racking up huge cash reserves, including Cisco ($26.7 billion), Apple ($24.5 billion), Microsoft ($19.7 billion), and Google ($14.4 billion).
Meanwhile, with the stock market shedding half of its value between July 2007 and January 2009, the market price of a lot of public technology companies has essentially been put on a “50% off sale.”
March 31st, 2009
Adobe, Facebook team on API library
Adobe and Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a set of developer tools to better use Flash in social applications.
Adobe’s is publishing an open source programming language library that will support all of Facebook’s application programming interfaces (APIs).
The developer documentation can be found at Adobe’s overview site. Among the details (Techmeme, Facebook and Adobe statements):
- Adobe will support 60 new APIs;
- ActionScript 3.0 is now an officially supported Facebook library along with JavaScript, iPhone and PHP;
- Adobe is betting that it can make Flash as popular on Facebook as it has with the Web and mobile applications.
Flash has been supported since the launch of Facebook Platform in 2007 through tags like fb:swf and fb:fbjs-bridge, embedding Flash in Feed stories, and multiple client libraries, which have helped you make Facebook API calls directly from ActionScript. As we reviewed support for ActionScript, we found that the client libraries out there were all really good, but none were complete and fully up-to-date.
March 25th, 2009
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March 4th, 2009
Adobe: First quarter sales light, but cost cutting saves earnings
Adobe said Wednesday that its first quarter sales will fall short of its expectations, but earnings will be a bit better than expected due to cost cutting.
The company said it expects revenue to be between $783 million and $786 million (statement). The company had set a revenue target of $800 million to $850 million. Adobe said 2009 would be challenging on its fourth quarter conference call and has cut expenses accordingly.
On the bright side, earnings for Adobe held up fairly well. The company is projecting earnings of about 30 cents a share according to generally accepted accounting practices. Excluding items, Adobe is projecting earnings of 44 cents a share to 45 cents a share. The company had projected GAAP earnings of 30 cents a share and earnings excluding charges of 43 cents a share to 47 cents a share.
Wall Street was already factoring in the worst with first quarter earnings estimates of 42 cents a share. Operating margins will meet the low end of Adobe’s targets.
The early reaction afterhours was positive:
In a statement, Adobe said:
“Weakness in its creative and knowledge worker businesses as the primary reason for the revenue shortfall. Seasonal strength in Japan, as well as continued success with its LiveCycle enterprise business, helped to offset some of the weakness in the quarter.”
Adobe also set targets for its fiscal second quarter. The company sees operating margins of 21 percent to 26 percent under GAAP with 32 percent to 36 percent margins excluding items. Sales will be between $675 million to $725 million.
February 20th, 2009
Critical vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, Reader: Patch coming March 11
Adobe said that a critical vulnerability resides in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9 and earlier versions. Unfortunately, Adobe won’t be updating Reader and Acrobat 9 until March 11.
Adobe said the vulnerability “would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.”
According to Adobe’s advisory, the software vendor plans the following:
Adobe expects to make available an update for Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 by March 11th, 2009. Updates for Adobe Reader 8 and Acrobat 8 will follow soon after, with Adobe Reader 7 and Acrobat 7 updates to follow. In the meantime, Adobe is in contact with anti-virus vendors, including McAfee and Symantec, on this issue in order to ensure the security of our mutual customers.
For now the best plan would be to update your Acrobat and Reader to 9 so you’ll at least be first in line for the patch.
February 16th, 2009
Adobe: Full-featured Flash 10 coming to a smartphone near you; Apple stand-off continues
Adobe will roll out a full-blown version of Flash on smartphones running Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia S60/Symbian and Palm beginning in 2010. The big omission remains Apple’s iPhone, which remains in a stand-off with Adobe over Flash.
Maggie Reardon reports from Barcelona at the GSMA Mobile World Congress (Techmeme):
The company has worked for years on a lightweight incarnation of its Flash technology for mobile phones. Adobe executives said that about 40 percent of all phones that are shipped today use this version of its technology. But because Flash Lite doesn’t allow for the same functionality as what’s available on the Flash 10 desktop version of the technology, mobile users are missing out.
And as rich Internet applications continue to grow a full version of Flash will matter even more. However, there are no signs that Flash 10–or even Flash Lite–will make it to the iPhone platform. Officially, Adobe and Apple are working on Flash for the iPhone. However, it’s Apple’s call whether and when to introduce Flash. Translation: Don’t hold your breath for Flash on the iPhone. Apple for whatever reason isn’t going for it.
If you want Flash on the iPhone users will just have to start complaining to Apple. But given that Apple users aren’t going to whine about the lack of Flash (nearly everything Apple does is perfection to these folks) this stand-off will continue indefinitely.
It’s a good thing for Adobe that there are other options. It’s a big smartphone world out there folks.
To wit:
- Palm said it has joined Adobe’s Open Screen Project, an effort to bring full web browsing across all screens. The big takeaway is that the Flash platform will work on Palm’s new webOS, which will power the Pre.
- Nokia and Adobe created a $10 million Open Screen Project fund to encourage development on Flash.
- Adobe also unveiled that latest Flash Lite player.
- And separately, Adobe announced a software developer kit for Adobe Reader so mobile users can better download, manage and display PDFs. In addition, there’s an XML-based eBook format.
Add it up and most of the focus will be on Adobe’s ongoing effort to put Flash on the iPhone. All parties involved in this scrum stop short of assigning blame, but I have to wonder how Adobe can manage to work with every mobile phone platform on the planet and yet Apple refuses to use Flash. A year from now Flash still won’t be on the iPhone. The big question is whether users will ultimately call Apple out.
January 12th, 2009
Survey: More SaaS development in 2009
More than half of all developers around the globe will work on Software as a Service (SaaS) apps this year, with a surge expected in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a study released today by Evans Data Corp. North America tops the list now for regions where SaaS implementation is highest, with 30 percent working on it today.
As companies look for cost-savings during the economic storm, technologies such as SaaS become investments that not only reduce costs but also increase efficiency. John Andrews, President and CEO of Evans Data, said:
These SaaS results definitely reaffirm the success of this concept in replacing the traditional model of business applications being run in house with traditional software licenses. SaaS is delivering on the promise of rapid deployment, limited upfront investment in capital and staffing, plus a reduction in the software management responsibility all making SaaS a very desirable alternative to software on a user’s premise.
The push into SaaS and cloud computing was no more evident than salesforce.com’s dreamforce event in San Francisco a few months ago. Salesforce announced the launch of Sites and partnerships with Facebook and Amazon, with big players from Google to Dell were on-site, as well. This morning, Adobe announced that it will make its LiveCycle ES Developer Express software available on Amazon Web Services.
Sam Diaz is a senior editor at ZDNet. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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