Where does it make all this money on? The article just mentions that they make Photoshop, Acrobat and Flash..and the Adobe press release doesn't provide any additional information.
Acrobat, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Flex: 274.1 mill
Omniture: 98.4 mill
PostScript, FrameMaker, PageMaker, Macromedia Contribute, Macromedia Captivate, Macromedia FreeHand: 47.3 mill
PDF & Flash Platform Revenue: 46.1 mill
I'd love to know how much of the 46.1 million of the "PDF & Flash Platform Revenue" and the 274.1 million of the "Acrobat, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Flex" is purely PDF related. How many people are buying Adobe Acrobat just to edit PDFs, documents that should be source code but aren't?
I just hate it when digital things become analog (or virtually analog, like PDF) and I doubly hate it that tools get built for editing the now analog digital document. Like OCR for Faxes, UGH!