Inside report

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Adobe Systems will incorporate its Acrobat portable document format (PDF) into Netscape Communications' products. Netscape browsers facilitate Internet World Web navigation and viewing. The adoption of the Acrobat PDF will increase the ease and quality of electronic-document exchange with the ability to distribute, view, navigate, print documents on-demand and create resolution-independent files, making the WWW a more dynamic environment for publishers. Adobe has also formed other alliances with varying objectives. The company will work with Frame to provide easy-to-use Type 1 fonts for Unix. Adobe and IBM are developing a PostScript-based publishing and printing system for IBM's Advanced Function Presentation architecture. Adobe will also boost DEC's Windows NT-based Alpha platform with its Configurable PostScript RIP.

Management, Usage, Product development, Document management systems, Portable document software, Adobe Acrobat (Portable document software), Cooperative agreement for product development, Alliances and partnerships

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Inside report

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The merger between desktop publishing vendors Adobe Systems and Frame Technology will further propel Adobe into dominance in the authoring software market. With the acquisition of Frame Technology and its FrameMaker program, Adobe now has more revenue in the desktop publishing market, when PageMaker is figured in, than the popular QuarkExpress. The recent trend towards publishing on the Internet has made Unix the platform of choice for many electronic publishing ventures, and only FrameMaker has a substantial market penetration of the Unix market. Adobe is said to have overpaid for Frame with its $500-million stock swap deal. The two companies' combined revenue over the last 12 months is $725.6 million.

Electronic publishing, Frame Technology Corp., Company Business And Marketing, FRAM

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What Quark's overture to Adobe really means

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The main outcome of Quark's late-summer 1998 move to acquire Adobe Systems may be higher visibility for the two players as well as more deal making and maneuvering for the benefit of stockholders. Quark's offer, which was eventually withdrawn, might have been motivated by worry about Adobe's still-in-development K2. The naive response to the proposed deal from analysts and users, though based on Adobe's management problems, overlooks the consequences of industry consolidation and market for mature products. Both Quark and Adobe have millions of users for their products and future customers are likely to come from each other's client base than from market growth.

Column, DTP software, Desktop publishing software, Quark Inc.

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