Adobe Announces New Licensing Option for Adobe Photoshop for UNIX; Individual Licenses Offer Increased Value for Adobe Photoshop for Sun and Silicon Graphics Workstations.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 1995--Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ) today announced a new licensing policy targeted at stand-alone workstations and dedicated image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished computers for the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) versions of Adobe Photoshop See Photoshop. (TM) 3.0, the world's leading photo design and production tool. New individual licenses for Adobe Photoshop 3.0 offer the most value of any image editing Changing or improving graphics images. It typically refers to bitmapped images rather than vector graphics drawings. Using an image editor, images can be modified by an artist using pen, brush, airbrush and other "painting" tools. and production tool available on Sun(TM) SPARC/Solaris(R) and Silicon Graphics(R) workstations, providing users with production utility that rivals high-end proprietary systems at an affordable price. The Adobe Photoshop individual license will be offered at the substantially reduced price of $995. "I don't need a network, but I've looked at Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations as a way to reduce the amount of time I spend waiting for my personal computer to complete image processing tasks," said Noel Barnhurst, a San Francisco-based commercial photographer specializing in advertising photography. "With Adobe's new individual license for the Adobe Photoshop program, I'll only pay for software for a single computer, and that makes workstation performance more affordable for me." Adobe's new individual licenses authorize users to install and access Adobe Photoshop 3.0 for UNIX workstations locally on a single computer. By contrast, Adobe's floating license permits one copy of Adobe Photoshop to be used on any computer over a network. Adobe will continue to offer floating licenses for networked systems in three configurations: $1,895 for a single license, $7,595 for five users, and $13,495 for ten users. "We depend on Adobe Photoshop software to produce great images for Tony La Russa Baseball Tony La Russa Baseball is a baseball computer and video game console simulation game (1991-1997), designed by Don Daglow, Mark Buchignani, David Bunnett and Hudson Piehl and developed by Stormfront Studios. 3 and our other games," said Don Daglow Don Daglow (born circa 1953) is an American computer game and video game designer, programmer and producer. He is best known for designing a series of pioneering simulation games and role-playing games, as well as the first computer baseball game and the first graphical MMORPG, all , president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Stormfront Studios, a multimedia entertainment software developer located in San Rafael, Calif. "The new individual license gives us a lot more flexibility to use the Adobe Photoshop program cost-effectively on our Silicon Graphics workstations." Adobe Systems, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. Adobe develops, markets and supports computer software products and technologies that enable users to create, display, print and communicate electronic documents. The company licenses its technology to major computer, printing, and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of applications software and type products for authoring visually rich documents. Additionally, the company markets a line of powerful, but easy to use, products for home and small business users. Adobe has subsidiaries in Europe and the Pacific Rim serving a worldwide network of dealers and distributors. Adobe's 1994 revenue was approximately $598 million. -0- Note to Editors: Adobe and Adobe Photoshop are trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries, and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Sun is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc., SPARCstation is a registered trademark of SPARC International Inc. Silicon Graphics and IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. are registered trademarks of Silicon Graphics Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Ltd. All other product and company names are the trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Adobe Systems, Inc., Mountain View Carol Sacks, 415/962-4989 http://www.adobe.com/ or Phase Two Strategies William Boehlke, 415/772-8411 william _boehlke@p2pr.com |
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