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Adobe almost embraces Linux.(Document Management)
Manufacturing Business Technology, March, 2005
Adobe, supplier of the Acrobat document publishing program, is experimenting with Linux. And like most technology vendors working with this operating system at this stage, Adobe is finding it makes more sense to support use of the open-source operating system on servers rather than desktops.
"At this point, we don't see sufficient business opportunity in Linux on the desktop," declares Pam Deziel, an Adobe product manager. That explains why Adobe didn't build support for Linux into version 6.0 of Acrobat Reader, the freeware program that allows users to view and print documents created with Acrobat. The previous version of Reader, released in 2001, did include Linux support. The beta version of Acrobat Reader 7.0 now circulating among select...
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