Star Adobe May Launch Office Rival
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Aug 2007 16:53 UTC, submitted by Franz Netell
Features, Office Adobe may launch its own office-application suite, taking it into direct competition with Microsoft. In an interview, Mike Downey, group manager for platform evangelism at Adobe, said that, although he could not reveal any plans at the moment, the possibility should not be dismissed.
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Yikes
by Don T. Bothers on Thu 16th Aug 2007 18:13 UTC
Don T. Bothers
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2006-03-15

Judging by all the other products Adobe has released, whatever they come up with will actually make OpenOffice look like a speed demon. Seriously, they have great products but they are all very industrial and memory intensive. I can't imagine them doing anything else.

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RE: Yikes
by flanque on Thu 16th Aug 2007 21:34 in reply to "Yikes"
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2005-12-15

I agree. Even with plenty of memory, striped hard disks, fast CPU and good video card, Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver take ages to load.

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RE[2]: Yikes
by jayson.knight on Thu 16th Aug 2007 22:52 in reply to "RE: Yikes"
jayson.knight Member since:
2005-07-06

"Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver take ages to load."

Hell, even a small app like Acrobat takes forever to load...if they can't even get that right, how will they get a full blown office suite to run quickly?

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