List of acquisitions by Adobe

Adobe Inc. is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California.

In 1982, John Warnock and Charles Geschke left Xerox PARC and established Adobe to develop and sell the PostScript page description language.

[1] Apple Computer licensed PostScript in 1985 for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution.

Adobe has not released the financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions.Adobe's first acquisition was Emerald City Software in March 1990.

[7] In May 2003, Adobe acquired Syntrillium Software and its digital audio editor software Cool Edit Pro, and merged it into its product line, re-releasing it as Adobe Audition.