Adobe: why the big business shift when financial results look so good?

By tim, on December 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe released its quarterly and full year results last week; I am catching up with this now after a week in China.

The company is doing well. Revenue is up by 11% year on year and it generated $1.5 billion in cash. It is buying back shares, usually a sign that a company has

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Adobe announces strong results though much of the business looks flat

By tim, on June 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced its financial results for its second quarter. Revenue is up 9% year on year, and profits are up too, so it looks like a strong quarter. However, the success is really limited to a couple of business segments.

Here is the comparison with the equivalent quarter last year:

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RESTful and modernised: making sense of Adobe’s new Enterprise platform

By tim, on June 20th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced its Digital Enterprise Platform for Customer Experience Management. My tip to Adobe: that is too many words with too many syllables for busy IT people who are trying to get their work done. What on earth is it? The same old stuff repackaged, or something genuinely new?

The answer is a

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JetBrains WebStorm 2.0 and PHPStorm 2.0 First Look

By tim, on March 2nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I respect JetBrains, an IDE company which survives despite intense competition from free tools such as Eclipse and NetBeans. It does so because developers like the products, especially the IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE. The tools are focused on coding; there are few visual designers but lots of coding help, such as code completion, refactoring,

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Review: Web Design for Developers by Brian Hogan

By tim, on June 3rd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The title of this book struck a chord with me. I’m comfortable with code but I don’t find design easy. Design is not magic though, and design skills can be learned. Maybe a typical developer will never be a great designer, but the ability to create web pages that look professional and attractive should

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Designers, Designers, Designers

By tim, on September 22nd, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

The last in my little series on design matters.

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The new power in computing: design-centric development

By tim, on September 21st, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been mulling over the insights from Microsoft’s Remix 08 conference in Brighton, and in particular Bill Buxton’s contention that it was a focus on design that saved Apple, and that a focus on design is the only thing that can save Microsoft.

It is all very well to nod heads and agree that

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