[ecf-dev] Adobe's Plans for a New Generation of Software

[Pete Mackie <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adobe's Plans for a New Generation of Software

Having completed the acquisition of Macromedia in December 2005,
Adobe Systems now controls two of the de facto standards for
electronic content -- the Portable Document Format (PDF) for electronic
documents and the Flash SWF format used for web-based animations and
interactive content. Adobe believes that combining these technologies
with a unified set of software development tools and programming
interfaces ("APIs") -- creating what Adobe terms its
"Engagement Platform" -- will uniquely position the company to
deliver a new generation of software development tools.