Code war heats up between Microsoft and Adobe
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
What happens when a smaller software maker enters a collision course with giant Microsoft? Adobe Systems, a San Jose-based company with a large presence in Fremont, is poised to find out. Redmond-based Microsoft just announced two products that will compete with offerings from Adobe, and Adobe is about to buy a company with products that challenge Microsoft's.
After that purchase, Adobe will practically own a rich market: software used by photographers, artists and Web developers to manage photos and graphic images and print them or create Web sites incorporating them.