Adobe products for Linux?

Adobe makes excellent desktop applications and their specialty is image/video processing and text publishing software. Most prominently Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Acrobat, and the likes. But they are only available for the Windows and Mac platform. Until now, they felt that Linux user base was too small and very unlikely to be interested in paying for software that costed as much as what Adobe charges for its applications.

But that might change now. Adobe has taken some steps that show that they are thinking about Linux. They have recently joined a prominent Linux consortium known as Open Source Development Labs, which has Linux developer Linus Torvald in its group. They also want to hire people to find out business opportunities for Adobe in the Linux Market.

For starters, they plan to upgrade their Adobe Acrobat Reader application to bring it on par with windows functionality on Linux. And then who knows… we might even see a Photoshop version being made available for Linux! Industry recognition is what Linux would love to get in these times when they are trying to make a dent in Windows User base who are stuck with XP until 2006. And if companies like Macromedia and Adobe chip in, it makes their job easier to get more people to move to Linux.

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