Adobe To Integrate Java Technology for Web Publishing

Company Licenses Language for Use in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PageMill
authoring tools

Mountain View, Calif., (December 6, 1995) (Nasdaq: ADBE) -- Adobe Systems
Incorporated announced today it has signed an agreement with Sun
Microsystems Inc. to broadly license Sun's Java programming language and
integrate Java support into future versions of Adobe PageMill Web
authoring software and Adobe Acrobat electronic document software.

For the millions of customers in the corporate and professional publishing
market and the thousands of Adobe developers, the agreement signifies new
possibilities for interactivity and professional-quality design in
Web-based content and authoring tools. The agreement also represents the
combination of technologies from two of the industry's fastest growing
Internet standards: Adobe Acrobat, which is widely used by major
corporations, professional publishers, and government agencies for the
platform-independent distribution of visually rich information; and Java,
Sun's industry-leading programming language for cross-platform,
network-based applications.

"The huge installed base of Adobe customers will have the opportunity to
merge their professional design and communication skills with the
interactive capabilities of the Web in an unprecedented way," said John
Warnock, CEO, Adobe Systems Incorporated. "With technologies such as Java
and Acrobat , Adobe and Sun can open Web publishing to a much wider range
of content providers and end-users while significantly improving the
Internet as a platform for business and consumer communications."

As part of the agreement, Adobe will integrate support for Java applets,
small programs created by Java that can run on any client system, into
Adobe software. Adobe is also considering the integration of Java
technology across the company's products and application programming
interfaces (APIs), enabling Adobe and its third-party partners to more
easily develop new functionality that works across Adobe applications and
computer platforms.For Immediate Release For more information: Rick Brown
Adobe Systems Incorporated 415 962.6060 ribrown@adobe.com
http://www.adobe.com/

"Through products such as PostScript and Acrobat, Adobe has been addressing
the market need for technologies that bridge the incompatibilities of
various computer platforms and applications for over a decade," continued
Warnock. "With Java, we can increase the solutions we offer to liberate
both customers and software developers from the limits of proprietary
technology."

"As the third largest PC software company with thousands of developer
partners, Adobe can offer a huge competitive advantage to the software
industry by enabling customers and third party partners to more easily
develop products that could instantly work across incompatible computer
platforms," said Eric Schmidt, chief technical officer, Sun Microsystems
Inc.

Adobe's Presence on the Internet

Through its products and business alliances, which include America On Line,
Apple Computer, AT&T, Compuserve, Digital Equipment Corporation, First
Call Corporation, Fulcrum, GEIS, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Multex,
Netscape Communications, Open Market, Personal Library Software, Prodigy,
Profound, Quarterdeck, Silicon Graphics Inc., Spyglass, Sun Microsystems
Incorporated, and Verity, Adobe delivers solutions for the digital
communication of visually rich information across the Internet, on-line
services, corporate networks and print-on-demand systems.

Adobe Systems provides market leading products for the creation of digital
information, including print, electronic document, video, and multimedia
applications. In addition, Adobe provides authoring tools that greatly
simplify the creation and management of Internet-specific content. Adobe
Acrobat software is used by customers worldwide as a standard for the
digital communication of visually rich documents across the Internet,
corporate networks and other digital media.

Adobe PageMill is an integrated authoring tool that simplifies the creation
of error-free Web pages. Users can create Web pages exactly as they will
appear in popular Web browsers without ever having to view HTML code.
Hypertext links between files can be created through simple drag-and-drop
procedures. Advanced HTML features, including clickable image maps,
fill-in forms, text/check boxes and pop-up menus, are all supported in
Adobe PageMill with WYSIWYG ease and accuracy.

The Adobe Acrobat software family of universal electronic publishing tools
simplifies the creation of electronic documents, allowing customers to use
virtually any authoring application to create information that can be
viewed, searched and printed across all major computer platforms and
printers. The Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), an open,
cross-platform file format created by Acrobat software, preserves the
fidelity of electronic documents, enabling information to be distributed
in a single format across a broad range of media, including the World Wide
Web, e-mail, Lotus Notes, corporate networks, CD-ROM and print-on-demand
systems.

About Java Technology

Java, developed by Sun, is an object-oriented programming language that
operates independent of any operating system or microprocessor. Java
programs called applets can be transmitted over a network and run on any
client, providing the multimedia richness of a CD-ROM over corporate
networks and the Internet. Java has been widely hailed by programmers
because it eliminates the need to port applications, and by managers of
information systems for its potential to lower the costs of distributing
and maintaining applications across the network.

Adobe Systems Incorporated, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain
View, California. Adobe develops, markets and supports computer software
products and technologies that enable users to create, display, print and
communicate electronic documents. The company licenses its technology to
major computer, printing and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of
applications software and type products for authoring visually rich
documents. Additionally, the company markets a line of powerful but
easy-to-use products for home and small business users. Adobe has
subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim serving a worldwide
network of dealers and distributors. Adobe's 1994 revenue was
approximately $598 million.
 
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