Adobe Announces InDesign CS2 Server for OEMs

Today, Adobe officially announced that InDesign CS2 Server, a server version of its end-user typography and design software for Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, and Mac OS X Server, will ship later this fall.

The company is offering the new server to developers and systems integrators creating automated publishing systems. The company also released the names of developers that are working on products based on the Server. Adobe is not selling InDesign CS2 Server to end users.

Whitney McCleary, senior product design manager for InDesign CS2 Server, said that Adobe has been working on the server since early 2004. Adobe made the decision to offer an OEM product rather than an end-user solution early on in the development process.

"This approach is very consistent with Adobe's long-term approach," said McCleary. "We build platform technologies rather than vertical solutions."

The new server shares the same code base as InDesign and InCopy, and natively reads and writes all of the file formats supported by the user version of InDesign CS2.

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