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Adobe Systems (pronounced a-DOE-bee): is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, United States that was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. They founded Adobe after leaving Xerox PARC in order to further develop and commercialize the PostScript page description language. Adobe played a significant role in sparking the desktop publishing revolution when Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in the LaserWriter printer product line in 1985. The company name Adobe comes from the Adobe Creek, which ran behind the house of one of the company's founders.
Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in December 2005.
In late 2006, Adobe Systems had about 5,879 employees, about 40% of whom work in San Jose. Adobe also has major development operations in Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California; NOIDA and Bangalore in India; and Ottawa, Canada. Minor Adobe development offices include a location near Minneapolis, Minnesota; Newton, Massachusetts and in Hamburg, Germany.
Since 2001, Fortune magazine has ranked Adobe as an outstanding place to work. Adobe was rated the fifth best American company to work for in 2003 and sixth best in 2004. Most recently it was ranked 31st in the 2007 Fortune Best Companies to Work For list.
Recently, Adobe has entered the Software Development Industry with the introduction of Adobe Flex Technologies.