Adobe Acquires Trade and Technologies France

Acquisition Further Extends 3D Visualization and Collaboration Technology and Expertise for Manufacturing Industry

PRESS RELEASE

SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 21, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it has acquired Trade and Technologies France (TTF), mak­ers of computer-aided design (CAD) data inter­op­er­abil­i­ty soft­ware. The acqui­si­tion will help build on the exist­ing 3D visu­al­iza­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion capa­bil­i­ties of Adobe® soft­ware and solu­tions for the man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try and oth­er mar­kets. Terms of the acqui­si­tion were not disclosed.

“We’re focused on deliv­er­ing the ben­e­fits of Adobe soft­ware and PDF to cus­tomers in tech­ni­cal mar­kets, includ­ing the man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try,” said Tom Hale, senior vice pres­i­dent, Knowledge Worker Solutions Business Unit, Adobe. “We antic­i­pate the acqui­si­tion of TTF will help us sig­nif­i­cant­ly accel­er­ate and expand that effort. The key tech­nol­o­gy and exper­tise we gain from TTF will help enable Adobe to pro­vide man­u­fac­tur­ing orga­ni­za­tions even more com­pre­hen­sive solu­tions for 3D visu­al­iza­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion that extend across and beyond the enterprise.”

TTF is a pri­vate­ly held com­pa­ny head­quar­tered near Lyon, France. Along with the strong indus­try exper­tise of its staff, TTF’s tech­nol­o­gy includes CAD soft­ware inter­op­er­abil­i­ty trans­la­tors and soft­ware libraries for high-end 3D visualization. 

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