Analyst: Adobe to announce CS3 products March 27

By: Stephen Shankland
Topics: Gadgets ,; PCs

Adobe likely will announce its Creative Suite 3 (CS3) products on or about March 27," Merrill Lynch analyst Jay Vleeschhouwer predicted last week, with the products themselves to ship "several weeks thereafter."

Crucial to the new products will be support for Apple computers using Intel processors; current CS2 products run only in a slower translation mode on these newer machines, an awkward mismatch given that Apple and Adobe products are popular with design professionals.

Core CS3 products include Adobe's flagship Photoshop software for image editing, Illustrator for vector graphics and InDesign for page layout, but not products such as Premier for video editing. Adobe has let CS2 customers try Photoshop CS3 beta. Vleeschhouwer, however, expects CS3 components to be offered in a variety of configurations: 14 individual products and about six different suites.

For CS3 and other "creative solutions" design and content creation software, Vleeschhouwer expects Adobe to garner $1.53 billion in revenue in its fiscal 2007 and $1.72 in fiscal 2008. "Demand, especially on the Mac side, is likely to propel significant incremental 'creative solutions' revenues," Vleeschhouwer said after a meeting with Adobe Chief Executive Bruce Chizen.

Despite the revenue spurt, Vleeschhouwer expects less cyclical financial results for the San Jose, Calif.-based company.

Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and has also covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux, other open-source software, and science.
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by carolcape February 1, 2010 7:23 PM EST: These people are acting as a cult. The leader of this cult, as I see it has not spoken as an ordinary leader of a church. He started right away talking about Christ. Well what your people have done is kidnap innocent children. You can't do that and they know better.They broke the law big time.Half of the children the parents were there.They had taken the children away from their parents by saying they were going to be better of.They should spend a great deal of time behind bars.It is strange they only have one there that is speaking out, the female. I could see them trying to help the children in their own community and try and get food and water for them and help their parents, BUT TAKING THEM OUT OF THERE WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOMEBODY IN AUTHORITY. KIDNAPPING IS WHAT THEY WERE DOING, and thank heavens these children were taken back to the safety of their parents. LOCK THEM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY. THIS LOOKS LIKE A MONEY MAKING GROUP, THEY HAD PLANS ON GETTING RICH. THEIR LEADER, calls himself a christian, he's an idiot, just listen to him talking.; Reply to this comment

by SuckersForHaiti February 1, 2010 3:19 AM EST

These church members spending their own money not government money to go into harms way & try to help blacks & they get the typical "tolerant" liberal moron knee jerk hater reaction. Liberal idiots asking all the wrong questions such as "Why are all these white people seeking black babies?...follow the money and you will find out. My thought? Lock'em up!" Gee I wonder if they would say that about the black man from Yemen Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who tried to blow -up the airplane in Detroit on Christmas Day??? No but further more if u recall the communist liberals kept using the word "alleged bomber" & giving him every benefit of the doubt even though dozens next to him saw him & he had on the liberal exploding panties & had horrible burns. Obama used same terminology & they want to try the "non citizen" terrorist in a court room just like you would put a shoplifter before a judge. The CNN story I saw confirmed that some Haitian parents gave their kids to this church group because they thought they would have a better chance of survival & much better life. It was also stated they were taking them to the Dominican Republic to an orphanage, not slipping them into speedboats & running them off the coast say maybe to Hollywood for some liberal a ho director to ream them all (Roman Polanski is not conservative.) Go after the age fifty something white church women trying to do more than the Al Sharptons or Jessie Jacksons then call them sex traders in blogs before they are given a chance at a trial. Liberals allow a black idiot Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board multiple planes enroute to Detroit without sufficient searches even after his father & other warned of his horrible intentions. In the last days it is said "Evil will be called good & good will be called evil. The good shall be called the bad, and the bad shall be glorified" ( I couldn't get over how many of the liberal goons came out of the woodwork to get on TV and be seen helping the "black man" John Edwards really just doesn't get it. He will never be anything in politics again.)

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by cidaia February 1, 2010 2:40 PM EST: How would YOU like it if there was an earthquake and then people from another country came, not to hand out water and blankets, but to scoop up all the neighborhood children and take them off to a foreign country.

A foreign country that just happens to be full of people willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a child to adopt.


by KPeters_from_UK February 1, 2010 3:10 AM EST: by epoptika January 31, 2010 10:01 PM EST
parents have no absolute ownership of children, nor does the state. This "trafficking" accusation is absurd. I'm an atheist and have no love for baptists nor any other brand of christianity, but these people were obviously trying to rescue a few humans from the filth that IS Haiti. What's the problem?

Sorry to inform you about human trafficking and children sex slave trade are a HUGE problem. These gangs work in the most vulnerable countries, they also work in Europe trafficking illegals from Eastern Europe and Asia. It is also big business in the States. Alot of the child prositutes on the streets of big cities are trafficked. So the big deal is to protect the children at all cost. Better these child are in a country they know than in a foreign place where they are alone and vulnerable.; Reply to this comment


by KPeters_from_UK February 1, 2010 2:59 AM EST: by RFCarpenter January 31, 2010 7:48 PM EST
For Ever More!!! For the love of GOD! Don't these idiot bureaucrats in Haiti have anything better to do than to cavity search a bunch of baptists trying to help some kids. One of the most corrupt and hapless governments on the planet and they jump on these folks. The government officials that are in the middle of this are probably "Child Traffickers" that don't want good revenue generating "PRODUCT" to be removed from their hunting grounds.

You are incredibly naive. Authorties must assume the worse in order to protect vulnerable children. It is the responsiblity of the adults to find, search any possible living uncle or aunt(family always comes first), are there siblings, health concerns? These church members should have worked with UNICEF or any other large well known charity. Why did they feel the need to scoop children up from the streets and get them over the border within 24 hours? Why the rush? Did these children know what was going on? Didn't sound like it when one of them thought they were going to summer camp!; Reply to this comment

by TryTakingMyMoney February 1, 2010 1:12 AM EST

Why are all these white people seeking black babies? With all the children that could be adopted in the US, why Haiti? Sounds like something is going on here...follow the money and you will find out. My thought? Lock'em up!

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by carolcape February 1, 2010 7:31 PM EST: I kind of agree with you on that one also. And there are a lot of people in Canada doing the same thing. Before it was taking children from Russia, that was a big deal and now it is Haiti. There are plenty of chidren in our country that need help and a home, so why not adopt children here. I believe there should be a ban on adopting children from other countries.

by erich_1-2009 February 1, 2010 1:11 AM EST

All this article shows is that wanted to do was help other people that were starving.
Society has lost their minds. They call good evil and evil good.
They are secular humanist and moral relativists. They are blind and do not believe in absolute values, or Truth.

Are you Rich Liberals helping out?

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by SusanStoHelit February 1, 2010 2:23 AM EST: "I am not an orphan!" - that is not helping people - that is kidnapping children.


by progress64 February 2, 2010 10:26 AM EST: What it shows me is that the Haiti Govt. wanted everyones help but now that they have all of the billons of dollars they don't want the USA to help anymore. We don't need all of these people over here. Let their Govt.take care of them. Haiti's Govt. are all crooks or else they wouldn't be that poor of a country.progress64

by featherknife February 1, 2010 12:42 AM EST

How nice. Stealing children for jesus. There is no excuse for this kind of behavior, whatever imaginary authority you may believe in. These children have a country, a family, and rights. Keep these cristian nutbags in jail.

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by carolcape February 1, 2010 7:34 PM EST: This leader I felt right away was a moron, he couldn't even answer a question about his own group. Just went on right away talking about Jesus. Well I mean we all have Jesus in our lives or most of us do, but being in his position he just kind of evaded the incident. It is strange how when they break the law they mention Jesus. When a guy goes to prison and wants to get out, he always mentions the good book or that he is born again, well how many have murdered that were born again.....

by greggcd February 1, 2010 12:02 AM EST

Best not to judge. Wait and see. Seems like some posters want them to be guilty. What are you doing to help out there? Maybe these folks are really there to help out, like most other Christian groups which are there. If they are guilty I'm sure it'll be blamed on all Christians--but that's the way it goes. Best to hope they are not and give them the benefit of the doubt--but as I said, some posters would be disappointed if they were proven benign.

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by carolcape February 1, 2010 7:38 PM EST: I don't agree with you at all. I mean most of us have common sense, so if I had ten friends and went to Haiti with them, I certainly wouldn't just round up 100 kids and try to wisk them quickly out of there. I mean come on, most of us know better then that. If there was a flood in your community and there were several children by themselves, would you just round up maybe 50 to 100 kids and take them to another state, no, you wouldn't and it is the same thing here. That is kidnapping and nothing else but.