Adobe Systems Acquires GoLive CyberStudio Professional Web Publishing Software
Leading Professional Web Authoring and Design Tool Expands Adobe's Award-Winning Product Line
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- (Nasdaq: ADBE - news) - Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that it has acquired the assets of GoLive Systems, Inc., including GoLive CyberStudio, the professional Web design and publishing software, and the GoLive Web Publishing System. The acquisition of GoLive CyberStudio underscores Adobe's strategy to lead Web publishing with a complete suite of professional design and publishing tools. With more than 25 best product awards and 45 top reviews in leading industry publications, the product has been widely accepted and critically acclaimed by professional Web publishers worldwide. CyberStudio has been used to produce Web sites for Aware Records, Music Boulevard, Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Records and The Associated Press, among others.
''Combining GoLive CyberStudio with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe ImageStyler, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat gives Adobe the only full suite for professional Web design and publishing,'' said John Warnock, co-founder and CEO, Adobe Systems. ''CyberStudio, PGML and our breakthrough page layout technologies are key components of our strategy to expand the opportunities for our customers in professional Web and cross-media publishing.''
''GoLive is very excited about joining the Adobe team. It's a natural fit for the companies' technologies, and a win-win situation for the acquisition's chief beneficiaries-our customers,'' said Andreas Poliza, GoLive's founder and CEO. ''The combination of Photoshop, Illustrator and CyberStudio is already the industry's leading web solution. Now, as part of Adobe, our engineers can deliver an unbeatable integrated suite of Web publishing tools.''
Industrial-Strength Professional Web Publishing
GoLive CyberStudio 3 includes everything Web authors need to design and produce fully dynamic Web sites, including the most demanding e-commerce sites, without complex multimedia programming. GoLive CyberStudio gives users complete control over all HTML in a visual environment while automatically generating industry-compliant HTML code. The result is clean HTML that even the most discerning Web programmers appreciate. The advanced site management tools in CyberStudio make Web site creation and maintenance easier and more visual than ever before.
Integration with Adobe's Design and Publishing Tools
CyberStudio perfectly complements the industry's most comprehensive line of professional Web graphics tools. Professional Web designers frequently cite Photoshop® and Illustrator® as the top tools for creating Web graphics and site composites. Additionally, new dedicated Web graphics tools, ImageReady® and ImageStyler®, empower designers to optimize and easily create Web effects.
''I use Adobe Photoshop all day, every day for almost all of my designs. Photoshop is the bedrock of creating images, and GoLive CyberStudio makes those images come alive,'' said David Kekone, president and CEO of CANTO 5 Design, in Hollywood, California. ''There's no solution that works as well for Web design and publishing. I do it without even thinking.'' CANTO 5 Design's clients include, among others, Maverick Records, Warner Bros. Records and MGM.
Adobe's submission of the Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML) to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and participation on several W3C authoring committees-including ICE, XSL and CSS-has enabled Adobe to take a leading role in setting standards critical to the future of Web publishing. Looking ahead, the combination of CyberStudio, Acrobat and the company's breakthrough page layout technologies lays the groundwork for a cross-media publishing system that will deliver documents for print and the Web with ease.
GoLive Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1996, GoLive Systems, Inc., is a privately held company located in Menlo Park, California, with offices in Hamburg, Germany; Tempe, Arizona; and Austin, Texas. To date, thousands of customers have used GoLive products to successfully develop and manage Web sites in a variety of industries, including consumer products, travel, entertainment, publishing and technology. Users include NuSkin, Warner Bros. Records, MTV Networks, Virgin Records, The Chicago Tribune, The Associated Press, Apple Computer and Iomega Corporation.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems is a leading provider of publishing and imaging software technologies, and the second largest desktop software company in the world with annual revenues approaching $1 billion. The company builds award-winning software solutions for professional publishers, Web and graphic designers, document-intensive organizations, business users and consumers. Adobe's products enable customers to create, publish and deliver visually rich images and documents across all print and electronic media. The company employs more than 2,600 employees worldwide and has operations in North America, Europe, the Pacific Rim, Japan and Latin America. Adobe's worldwide headquarters is in San Jose, California, and its web site is located at www.adobe.com.
NOTE: The Adobe Logo, Adobe, Acrobat, CyberStudio, Illustrator, ImageReady, ImageStyler, and Photoshop are all trademarks of Adobe Systems Incoroporated. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
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