The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
September 29th, 2009
After my first glib reaction to the Adobe-Omniture deal, this past Friday it struck me that the proposed acquisition by Adobe deserves a lot more scrutiny. So I’ve set myself the task to prepare a detailed in-depth report on the topic and publish it by next Monday. I’ve collected all of the interesting articles and…
September 26th, 2009
I missed this story a week ago in the San Jose Mercury-News. According to its web site: “President Barack Obama…picked Adobe Systems co-founders Charles Geschke and John Warnock to receive…the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.” According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, “The National Medal of Technology and Innovation… is the highest honor…
September 16th, 2009
This is the VERY obvious title I’ve pulled from a good ZDNet blog by Larry Dignan today. Tonight I wrote to the Wall Street Journal reporters on the story (as there was no room for commenting): “My first thought was that Adobe needed to spend a bunch of that cash they’ve got lying around to…
October 27th, 2008
Today Quark made a significant announcement: “…Quark announced groundbreaking innovation in automated workflow publishing by extending the capabilities of Quark Publishing System 8 (QPS 8) to include support for both QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. QPS users now have the flexibility to use QuarkXPress with QuarkCopyDesk and Adobe InDesign with Adobe InCopy at the component level…
September 22nd, 2008
I just received an email from Adobe’s PR agency as follows: Hello – Due to sources leaking Adobe Creative Suite 4 news prior to the previously set NDA date of 12:01 ET tonight, the NDA is now lifted effective immediately. Please feel free to post your coverage on CS4 and any of the related point…