Top > Webmaster > 2006 > January > 2006-01-11

Adobe Expansion Plan

Adobe Systems software is used across the world from the office to the home computer. And since it acquired Macromedia last year, it seems that there is no end to Adobe`s expansion. In fact, the company recently announced that it has acquired the File Line Digital Rights Management division of Navisware. With the acquisition, Adobe said it will be able to provide new capabilities to its Adobe Live Cycle Policy Server to persistently protect business-critical documents in PDF, Microsoft Office and CAD formats, independent of how they are stored or delivered inside and outside the firewall.

Navisware, based in Raleigh, N.C., developed File Line to provide DRM capabilities for a variety of document types critical to the engineering design process. By integrating these capabilities into its Live Cycle Policy Server, Adobe said it will help organizations apply policies directly to documents such as financial, government, or engineering documents containing intellectual property, better controlling how, when, and by whom the documents can be used.

In addition, Adobe also announced a public beta of Light Room, an all-digital imaging solution designed to give professional photographers a complete photography workflow. The software will be on display this week at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The beta version is for Macintosh, although Adobe said it also plans a Windows version. Light Room is one of many beta or test programs Adobe plans to make available under a new Adobe Labs test site. Earlier this month, an update to Flash Pro 8, software for building mobile applications with Flash Lite 2 software, was made available at the Adobe Labs Web site.