Adobe Inc.

**Adobe Inc.**, formerly **Adobe Systems Incorporated**, is a computer software company that develops and markets creativity and media software through its Adobe Creative Cloud subscription and online disribution service. After Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia, applications from its last Macromedia Studio 8 suite were incorporated into Adobe Creative Suite.

## History

Adobe 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.

**Adobe Systems** became a Delaware corporation on May 9, 1997. Effective as of October 8, 2018 at 4PM EDT, the company's name was changed to **Adobe Inc.**

### 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)
		- Live Software (June 15, 1999)
	+ 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)

## Products

*See: List of Adobe products at the Adobe Wiki*
Many Macromedia products were incorporated into Adobe's product line:

* Macromedia Breeze Meeting became Adobe Connect
* Macromedia Breeze Presenter became Adobe Presenter
* Macromedia Captivate became Adobe Captivate
* Macromedia ColdFusion became Adobe ColdFusion
* Macromedia Contribute became Adobe Contribute
* Macromedia Director became Adobe Director
* Macromedia Dreamweaver became Adobe Dreamweaver
* Macromedia Fireworks became Adobe Fireworks
* Macromedia Flash became Adobe Flash
* Macromedia Flex became Adobe Flex
* Macromedia Shockwave became Adobe Shockwave

Some were officially retitled but were soon discontinued with few or no updates:

* Macromedia Authorware became Adobe Authorware
* Macromedia FreeHand became Adobe FreeHand
* Macromedia JRun became Adobe JRun

## References

1. ↑ Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems. 2005-12-05. Archived 2005-12-07.
2. ↑ 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.

## External links

* Adobe official website
	+ Adobe (archived 1996-10-22)
* 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 Wikipedia
	+ List of acquisitions by Adobe