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From: tut%cairo@Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill)
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Subject: Re: Adobe flagellating PostScript trademark
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Date: 28 Mar 88 20:04:05 GMT
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Summary: Adobe's business

The recent Adobe flagellation of the PostScript trademark looks like a
sign of an insecure company.

An article in the current Barron's magazine recommends shorting Adobe.
With a P/E ratio of 30, this would seem to make sense.  The main problem
here is that Adobe is already heavily shorted, with a short interest of
807,163 shares (6.35 times daily volume).  That creates a nice floor
under the stock as shorts are covered.

At a recent Seybold conference, a new company in Mountain View announced
font outline technology that appears to be faster and better than what
Adobe offers.  Let's admit it, the important part of PostScript is the
font technology, not the language syntax (gag).

There are lots of PostScript clone companies now, but most of them have
not had compelling font technology.  But it looks to me like they would,
if they bought it from this new company.