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Thursday, March 01, 2007
Photoshop To Go Online
Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen (right) says that Photoshop will be online
within six months, c|net News.com reported yesterday. Up till now,
Adobe's products have been software programs sold in boxes or by
download for installation on end-user's own local computers. The
pioneering application for the new paradigm is Adobe Remix, a web-
based video editing tool that Adobe offers through PhotoBucket, and
Adobe's model appears to be Google, which already offers several
online applications (such as Blogger, which you're reading right
now). Adobe wants to be ready before anyone else (Google again
implied) treads on its territory with online apps for imaging. Chizen
told News.com yesterday that a basic version of Photoshop will be
made available as an online service. It will be a more basic version
than Elements and it will be free to users—Adobe will derive income
indirectly, through advertisements.
Chizen said that in the future, Adobe will offer complete hosted
applications online, and that it is also looking into hybrid models
in which online services will introduce users to its more complete,
traditionally packaged software.
Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTON, with thanks to Kevin_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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