

The founders of Virtual Ubiquity have agreed to join Adobe. Adobe said the Virtual Ubiquity deal is not expected to have a material impact on its results in fiscal 2007. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of November.
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“We are definitely going to integrate Buzzword into PDF workflows.” “We have a lot of opportunity to expose a lot of people to Buzzword very quickly,” Larson said when asked if Adobe would build the word processor into Adobe Acrobat document control software or its related PDF document management format.

Users select the documents they want to share, send a message to recipients and determine whether to let their files be publicly accessible or restricted.Īdobe officials declined to spell out how the company plans to distribute Buzzword, but said it will eventually be tied to its document management software used widely in business. Codenamed “Share,” the new Adobe service lets people share, publish and organize documents online. In a related move, Adobe has set up a new file-sharing service to its existing line of online document services. “Buzzword looks the same whether it is running in a Web browser or as a desktop application,” IDC’s Webster said of how Buzzword can work whether or not a user is online or offline, in their office, or disconnected while traveling on an airplane. IBM IBM.N recently introduced an online word processor as part of its Lotus Symphony suite of business productivity applications. Zimbra, which Yahoo Inc YHOO.O recently acquired, also competes here. ThinkFree, a unit of South Korea's Haansoft Inc 030520.KQ, offers a word processor as part of a suite of tools that works online and offline. But so far, the application focuses on basic tasks for small groups of individuals. Last year, Google introduced Google Docs, an online word processor that allows people to write and edit shared documents. Microsoft is considering making an online word processor available via its Microsoft Works line.
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Full of features, Word is aimed at desktop computer users. Word, a main component of Microsoft’s Office suite of business productivity applications, has long dominated the market for word processors.
