Review: Can Microsoft's Expression Studio challenge Adobe?
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Redmond makes a foray into the design-suite space with this bundle of four applications. How do they stack up, individually and together -- and should Adobe be worried?
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(InfoWorld) - Adobe's ColdFusion software for building Internet applications and Web sites is being improved with Microsoft .Net support, enabling .Net objects to be invoked from within the ColdFusion language. A public beta of ColdFusion 8, accessible here, is to be offered on Wednesday. The general release is set for mid-year. Version 8 is the first Adobe-branded release of the former Macromedia technology. ColdFusion is a server-side Java application; it is partnered with a markup language for writing ColdFusion applications. .Net support in the upcoming version 8 bridges the Java and Microsoft worlds. "Customers don't need to select one technology to the exclusion of the other," Tim Buntel, Adobe senior product marketing manager, said. Also featured in ColdFusion 8 is generation of PDF documents as well as capabilities for working with PDF forms and manipulating existing PDF documents. Support for the JBoss application server has been added, also. For developers, Adobe is adding interactive debugging based on the Eclipse IDE. A Server Monitor capability, meanwhile, identifies bottlenecks in the server. Adobe's Flex rich Internet application technology and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) components are leveraged in the new product for integration of complex environments with intuitive interfaces, Adobe said. ColdFusion differs from Flex in that Flex is a client-side technology featuring a language and compiler to convert code to Flash content. With ColdFusion, the server-side technology can integrate with databases and Java and .Net objects while also offering text searching. However, ColdFusion also can generate an HTML interface for Web applications. The ColdFusion upgrade puts to rest questions about Adobe's commitment to the technology after acquiring Macromedia, said analyst Ray Valdes, research director for Internet platforms and Web services at Gartner.Â  "People may have wondered if Adobe appreciated ColdFusion, and I think they do. I think it's part of their enterprise software strategy," Valdes said. While Adobe recently offered the Flex software development kit to the community at large via open source, there are no plans to open-source ColdFusion. This stance gives the company the ability to make certain ColdFusion integrates with other Adobe technologies, Buntel said.
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When Adobe followed the November 2005 release of Apple&#8217;s Aperture photo management app by putting out a beta of Lightroom, a workflow tool for professional photographers, the stage was set for a battle over the digital photography space between two tech industry giants.
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Adobe's Creative Suite 3 programs are not fully tested with 'Leopard.'
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Announces Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4 for Windows.
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Microsoft late Tuesday released the first beta of its new Web design tool that will compete with the likes of Adobe Dreamweaver. The program is part of Microsoft's forthcoming Expression lineup, which also includes a graphical design tool and an interface designer.
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Macromedia promises to speed development of Internet applications with a new tool for its Flex platform. With Flex, enterprises can add interfaces to strategic applications, including visual
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Investing in Adobe would be a no-brainer -- if it weren't for its competitors.
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Adobe on Wednesday rolled out version 1.1 of its Photoshop Lightroom application, the company's image processing application for professional photographers. The update brings support for Windows Vista, a new image management system, improved noise reduction and sharpening, and additional RAW file support.
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Adobe Systems Inc. on Wednesday released an upgrade of its consumer-focused photo-editing software, which has been enhanced with new features for improving photo quality.
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The makers of Firefox want to break outside the browser--and challenge Adobe's AIR.
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By Mark Kellner, The Washington Times  Sep. 20--It's axiomatic that Washington runs on forms. And Adobe System's  Acrobat Professional software is one of the most important tools a form  creator or user can have in his or her arsenal.   Acrobat Professional 8, announced Sept.
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Adobe Systems Inc's  Photoshop,  Illustrator and other Creative Suite 3 programs have not been  fully tested with the latest version of Apple Inc's   operating system due out next month, which could lead to  incompatibility issues.
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ADOBE Systems, maker of the world-renowned Photoshop picture-editing software, has announced two new products for digital video and still-photography hobbyists.
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Adding to its offerings for digital imaging and video hobbyists, Adobe Systems on Wednesday announced a new video-editing package and an update to its Photoshop Elements image-editing product.
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Nearly eclipsed by Eclipse, Microsoft opens tool platform to all Pop along to Sourceforge and youâll find many different programmersâ editors, many of which have been abandoned long before theyâre ready for use. Thereâs not really any point developing an editor, when toolkits like Scite exist. The same is true of IDEs, when thereâs the extensible Eclipse IDE to use. As a result itâs been gaining more and more market- and mindshare with development tools vendors around the world.â¦
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TechWeb - Adobe releases an upgrade of its consumer-focused photo-editing software, which has been enhanced with new features for improving photo quality.