Enterprise Cloud Computing Track at Cloud Expo

The unveiling of the next major release of Adobe's flagship Creative Suite apps is due on April 12 with availability of the kit in English following a month later. There hasn't been a rev since September of 2008. Adobe named the date when it reported fiscal first-quarter earnings down 19% to $127.2 million, or 24 cents a share, on revenue up 9.2% to $858.7 million including $432 million from CS4. Product sales were up 7.7%, service and support up 34%. Adobe's new Omniture acquisition kicked in about 10% of total revenue. CS didn't do so well at the height of the recession but with demand on the rise Adobe forecast Q2 revenues of $875 million-$925 million above Wall Street expectations. Otherwise, Adobe's next-generation Flash Builder, Flash Builder 4 and the latest edition of its ColdFusion, tools for building multi-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs), are out now.