---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash ADOBE SYSTEMS AND SUN MICROSYSTEMS INK TECHNOLOGY AND MARKETING PACT SunFLASH Vol 45 #24 September 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 21, 1992-- Adobe Systems Incorporated and Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced that they have signed a far-reaching technology and marketing partnership agreement. Under the agreement, Sun will adopt Adobe's imaging technologies, PostScript and Display PostScript, while Adobe will increase technology and application development for SunSoft's Solaris distributed computing environment. In addition, the two companies will undertake joint marketing and developer support activities. As a result of the agreement, Sun will integrate the Display PostScript system in the Solaris computing environment, clearly establishing Display PostScript as the standard imaging model for UNIX platforms. SPARC and 80486-based computers running Solaris with Display PostScript software will offer powerful, flexible platforms for a wide variety of applications, including professional publishing, graphic arts and commercial and financial applications. Microcomputer users will be able to take advantage of the power and capabilities of UNIX computing - networking, high performance and security - and continue to display and print their documents using PostScript technology. SunSoft expects the Solaris operating system with Display PostScript to be available in 1993. Sun and Adobe will work with leading ISVs to develop applications that take full advantage of the Display PostScript system in the Solaris operating environment. Under a related agreement, Adobe will port its popular Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop applications to the Solaris environment. These are expected to be available in 1993. Sun will also work with Adobe to make Adobe's new document communication technology software, code named Carousel, successful in the UNIX market. In addition, Adobe and SunPics, the printing business of Sun Microsystems, Inc., signed a letter of intent to use Adobe's PostScript Level 2 technology in SunPics' future software offerings. The agreement combines SunPics' strengths in network printing, imaging and font management with Adobe's strengths in graphics, rendering and document interchange, increasing Sun's position in the network printing arena and providing Adobe with a platform to showcase its current and future products. SunSoft will include a selection of Adobe's Type 1 fonts in the Solaris environment and Solaris and Sun's PostScript Level 2 printing solution will support both Adobe's Type 1 font format and Sun's F3 Folio format. This brings the Adobe Type Library, third-party Type 1 libraries, Adobe's multiple master fonts and Kanji Type 1 fonts to Solaris users. "Adobe and Sun, both leaders in their fields, have entered into a long-term partnership that promises significant benefits to end-users, developers and bothp companies," said Charles Geschke, Adobe's president and chief operating officer. "For the first time, developers will be able to write high-volume, graphically oriented applications to a single imaging model supported by a broad installed base of UNIX workstation platforms. This will give users powerful new applications, as well as access to industry-standard Type 1 fonts and PostScript imaging and printing." "Adobe's technology combined with the power of Solaris' networked computing environment defines the new publishing and imaging paradigm for the 1990's," said Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems, Inc. "This partnership will further increase Sun's already strong position in the commercial client/server market." Adobe's Display PostScript system is an advanced graphics software component that brings the full power and flexibility of the PostScript language to computer displays. It incorporates the same industry-standard imaging model and language used in PostScript printers. This enables application developers to describe pages the same way for the display and printer, which makes it easier to develop graphically sophisticated applications. End users benefit from the truest possible WYSIWYG correspondence between their display and any PostScript output device, guaranteeing that displayed and printed images match as closely as device capabilities permit. SunSoft's Solaris is an integrated distributed computing solution targeted at the client/server market. Solaris - consisting of a UNIX foundation, development environment and user environment - provides end users, software developers and system administrators with a powerful and simple graphical computing solution. Solaris is offered on the world's leading microprocessors, SPARC and X86. 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 and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of type and application software products. Revenue for 1991 exceeded $229 million. 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