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For 25 years, Adobe Systems Inc. has pushed publishing and printing boundaries to the limits. With their proprietary PDF format, computer scientists John Warnock and Charles Geschke have established a company that has become the software provider of choice for a wide range of industries.
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As of January 2007, Adobe Systems has 6,677 employees,[2] about 40% of whom work in San Jose. Adobe ... has major development operations in Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California; Ottawa, Canada, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Newton, Massachusetts; San Luis Obispo, California and in Hamburg, Germany, Noida, India, and Bangalore, India.
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Before Juniper, Elop, 44, served as president of worldwide field operations at Adobe Systems Inc., where he was responsible for Adobe's global sales organization and all customer-facing functions. Elop joined Adobe following the 2005 acquisition of Macromedia Inc., where he was president and CEO. During his seven-year tenure at Macromedia, Elop held many senior positions, including COO, executive vice president of worldwide field operations and general manager of the company's eBusiness division. Earlier in his career, he served in a number of executive positions, including chief information officer. Elop earned a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and management from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
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On January 11, 2008, the Board of Directors of Adobe Systems Inc. approved and adopted the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company. The Bylaw amendments became effective January 11, 2008. Article IV, Section 15 of the Bylaws was amended to change the voting standard for the election of directors in uncontested director elections from a plurality to a majority voting standard. A nominee for director in an uncontested election will be elected to the Board if the votes cast 'for' such nominee's election exceed the votes cast 'against' such nominee's election. In contested elections the vote standard will continue to be a plurality of votes cast. In addition, the Board approved an amendment to Article III, Section 5(c) of the Bylaws to provide that director nominees proposed by shareholders must deliver a statement that, if elected, they agree to tender an irrevocable resignation, in accordance with the Company's Corporate Governance Guidelines that are applicable to all director nominees, upon failure to receive the required vote in a subsequent election.
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Adobe is celebrating its 25th year in existence. Started in December of 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, Adobe has grown to become a $2.5 billion-a-year-company. Not bad for a couple of refugees from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center–the same place Steve Jobs went to visit to “discover” the GUI and the computer mouse.
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PostScript is a page-description language developed in the early 1980s by Adobe Systems Incorporated on the basis of work at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). Such languages describe documents in terms that can be interpreted by a personal computer to display the document on its screen or by a microprocessor in a printer or a typesetting device.
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