Adobe enters word processor war
Adobe Systems Inc is acquiring Virtual Ubiquity, makers of Buzzword, an innovative word processor, in a surprise move that competes with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc.
Adobe, a major supplier of business publishing software and design tools, is looking to a team of former Lotus application developers to enable the millions Adobe Acrobat software users to work together publishing shared documents. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Buzzword, one of a new class of rich Internet applications (RIA), was built by an 11-member team in Waltham, Massachusetts, who helped create the 1980s-era Manuscript,
Lotus’s second programme created after its ground-breaking 1-2-3 spreadsheet.
Agencies
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