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Adobe's decision makes sense.  It's about survival in a market faced with a chronic, perhaps terminal, squeeze on revenues.  It's not unlike the problems faced by makers of TV displays, cameras, or...

I'll trust that public schools in Europe give better attention to grammar than ones in the US.  However, very few graduates will manage to speak or write with the fluency of a Balzac or a Goethe. ...

All the complainers are greatly mistaken. Adobe's 2013 profits are down by half, with return on equity now a bare 4%. The software publishing earnings outlook is bleak unless competitors either...

Well said. This is precisely why Adobe is changing the way it makes money. It could never survive by offering CS7, CS8, or CS9 in a world that is happy with CS5. Microsoft is also hard pressed...

Market pressure? The CEO will be in bigger trouble unless he stems the earnings decline. Adobe's first quarter profits were down from $185m to $65m. Annualized, that's a paltry 4% return on...

Adobe is smarter than most complainers by a half. The earnings outlook for traditional AV software is bleak. Look at the awful earnings histories or SEC troubles of Avid, Grass Valley, Roxio, or...

Adobe is smarter than most complainers by a half. The earnings outlook for traditional AV software is bleak. Look at the awful earnings histories or SEC troubles of Avid, Grass Valley, Roxio, or...

If software is not patentable, or protected by copyright, then photos should not be either.

While neither an Adobe employee or investor, I think the change to a subscription model is the only way a software company can continue to make money.

Ladies and gents, it's time to grow up! ...

Cut some slack, folks. Adobe is proposing nothing different than what your landlord, tax collector, insurance provider, cable service, water utility, or school bursar have been doing for years. ...

Penguins? A cool topic to chill all the heat generated by the Adobe announcement! Penguins are also masters of living mobile icebergs, or nest temporarily, so they have lessons to teach us how...

The cheapest camera with the most options for video control is probably the Lumix LX7, which is occasionally offered for only $299.  Even at $399, you get controls and low-light performance that...

Schools have always been cash cows for the publishing industry. Apple and Pearson are adroitly pursuing sales of iPads and rented on-line curricula. Adobe and others are not about to be left in...

Let me play the devil's (Adobe's) advocate: traditional sales of software are doomed by falling sales of PC, the higher cost and diminished returns of further upgrades, and by the fact that...

Adobe's decision won't be solo. Revenues from software sales are destined to stagnate or decline, unless the publishers adopt a similar way to convert their products into a sort of rental service....