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Adobe Hits Record Revenues
It attributed the results to Acrobat, its Creative Suite 3 products and momentum in its enterprise business

By: Engin Sezici
Dec. 24, 2007 12:45 PM

Adobe earned $222.2 million, or 38 cents a share, up 21%, on record fourth-quarter revenues of $911.2 million, up 34% year-over-year, exceeding the company's revenue target of $860 million-$890 million.

It attributed the results to Acrobat, its Creative Suite 3 products and momentum in its enterprise business.

Creative Suite 3, which started coming out in April, includes upgrades to Photoshop, Illustrator and software acquired with Macromedia like Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks.

On a non-GAAP basis Adobe earned 49 cents in Q4, a penny more than Wall Street expected.

This quarter Adobe is targeting sequentially lower revenue of $855 million-$885 million, a GAAP operating margin of 30%-31%, a non-GAAP operating margin of roughly 40% and earnings of 34 cents-36 cents.

Wall Street had it down for $837 million in revenue.

For fiscal 2008, Adobe reaffirmed that it's targeting annual revenue growth of approximately 13%.

It will be bringing out more upgrades and commercializing AIR tools for writing programs that work on the web.

Adobe is planning to buy back 30 million more shares than the 20 million authorized in April. At the end of November it had bought back 17.7 million shares.

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About Engin Sezici
Engin Sezici is blogger-at-large at SYS-CON Media where he held corporate positions earlier in his career. Engin likes to travel through Europe and Greek Islands, reports on technology subjects from around the world and lives on a private island in the Bahamas when he is not on the road. You can reach him at engin(at)sys-con.com.

YOUR FEEDBACK
RIA News Desk wrote: we would share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application pioneers are thinking
Kurt Cagle wrote: There's a growing impedance mismatch between the large scale providers of content and the consumers of that content as we build multiple messaging architectures. How realistically do we resolve this mismatch in such a way that we are able to preserve both flexibility (SOAP), simplicity (Atom) and brevity (JSON), and can we do so without sparking a religious war?
Crolly Darvo wrote: Will the browsers development, unification and standardization give us more possibilities and freedom to sophisticate or simplify our interfaces & APIs?
Brett Green wrote: Do you believe a shift back towards rich desktop apps, which are internet-enabled, will lead away from the need for AJAX-enabled web applications?
Gabriel Kent wrote: If you imagine the a URI is a handle to a given resource -- is the AJAX community pushing to retain the isomorphic relationship between the URI and a given state of a web application as it changes through AJAX interaction?
Micha? S?aby wrote: Are off-line applications for web the right direction? Is Google Gears relevant when more and more devices has 24/7 Internet access? Will web applications of the future be complex on client and lightweight on server side or rather the opposite? This is essential issue to me, as Tigermouse framework I develop favors the later approach.
Marcio wrote: Other questions like: [1] ambiguity in AJAX toolkits, can I match them? how an aspect in Toolkit A can influence toolkit B? The namespaced Web apps becomes now important. It's the same that happened in Browser space, they were different, then become a bit shared, the AJAX toolkits work also may reach a convergence state as we have offline/online caching infra-structure with namespaced events - sandboxed apps in the same page but running each in a given scope. I think the next stage promises good things for us and the current stage is a mess with good value under it. The exploration of the mashup stack and mashup infra for interoperability is an area to massage.
WishList wrote: If only AJAX could somehow bring us a spam-free internet, now THAT would be a rich future!
AJAX vs CF wrote: While Ajax represents the future, it looks like in Georgia they still have developers working in ColdFusion from Adobe - how come? Here's the link: http://www.dot.state.ga.us/
IMHO wrote: Development managers need to ask themselves at least these two questions before adopting AJAX on a project. First, will you make up for the time invested in adopting a new technology through increased development speed? And second, will AJAX allow you to offer a more useful application to your users?
Ahmed ALEM wrote: The answer is definitely: Java + XML + XSLT + a new ML, instead of: JavaScript + XML + HTML. But is there any project which take into account all these ideas? Are there any band of developers who are interested in re-inventing a better wheel?
Answer wrote: The next stage of AJAX is Comet.
mAX kIESELR wrote: It was inevitable that someone would use web 2.0 social aspects together with an AJAX interaction layer to create a next generation weblog. As usual it took a seventeen year old to do it. Logahead is everything I've been looking for recently in blogging software. It's PHP, MySQL, AJAX, and has several social features. DEMO LINK: http://www.maxkiesler.com/index.php/designdemo/fullview/386/
BeyondAJAX wrote: The event-driven web is the most important step for a new Internet in recent years.
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