CS3: Now Q1 2007?
The speculation runs rampant!
AppleInsider notes:
People familiar with the software maker’s plans say the suite is currently tracking for a release towards the end of March, ahead of the 2007 Photoshop World conference scheduled for April 4-6 at the John B. Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass.
The rumblings are contrary to comments from Adobe chief executive Bruce Chizen, who in a March 2006 interview with Forbes magazine said the San Jose-based company would not launch the next generation suite until the second quarter of 2007.
Meanwhile, Investor’s Business Daily is sticking with a later date:
“As far as the next product cycle, everything seems to be lining up,” said Martin Pyykkonen, an analyst with Global Crown Capital.
Pyykkonen predicts that Adobe will release CS3 on May 1. Adobe executives are guiding analysts lower in their financial targets for the firm ahead of the CS3 launch, he says.
[…] A big question hanging over Adobe is how much of a dip in revenue it can expect in its creative solutions unit ahead of the Creative Suite 3 launch. Some buyers looking to upgrade might decide to wait until CS3 comes out, says Ross MacMillan, a Jefferies & Co. analyst.
“No one really knows quite how sharp the deceleration is going to be ahead of the (Creative Suite 3) product cycle, particularly in the January quarter,” MacMillan said. “Everybody knows it (CS3) is coming. So how do you stimulate purchases of the existing CS2 product and the other products that sit within it, like Photoshop?”
There’s a pent-up demand for CS3 among creative professionals who use Apple Computer’s (AAPL) Macintosh PCs, he says.
Ya think?
It’s about speed, Adobe! The current Mac Pro towers — in either 2.66 or 3.0 — roughly equal, give or take a little, the Quad G5 in a Photoshop Actions test. But, the Mac Pros require translation for the Intel stuff through Apple’s Rosetta.
The 3.0GHz Mac Pro’s 20% faster clock speed, larger L2 cache, and faster system bus enables it to muscle through these two non-optimized apps. When Adobe releases the UB versions in Q2 2007, “look out below”!
