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Adobe Firing Salvos at Redmond

Adobe is reaching into your editor's new hometown of Waltham, Mass. (also home to Novell, incidentally) to buy a company that'll give it a Flash-based online word processor.

And if going after Microsoft Word wasn't enough, Adobe's also teaming with business intelligence heavyweight Business Objects in another effort to provide competition to Office.

Posted by Lee Pender on October 02, 2007


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