Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Adobe Background

Adobe Systems is an American computer software company, the headquarters is in San Jose, California. Adobe was founded December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, established after leaving Xerox.
The two developed and sold PostScript page description, this is a language that describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than output bitmap, which stores in color depth. This format is used by Apple, McIntosh and Microsoft, if you use any of the mentioned systems, I am sure you have heard of the company and its software. Adobe Systems has approximately 6,068 employees in the United States, in addition to employees in Germany and India. In December 2005 they purchased Macromedia to increase their presence in the software arena, this company produces graphics and web development software.
Adobe was ranked the 5th best company to work for in 2003, slipping to 31st place in 2007. This year the revenue for Adobe is well over 23 billion.

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