2005/10/06 06:10 稿件来源: 倍可亲网讯

A Visit to Adobe 　　A visit with the Photoshop engineers at 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA. June 16 & 17, 2005. 　　

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When you visit Adobe Systems, Inc. visitors are allowed to park in the underground parking lots. The image on the left is the main door from the garage to the lobby. If you get off on the first floor, you'll be on the ground floor with the main entry doors. As is fitting for a company built largely upon type, type is a reoccuring theme in the decor.

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　I had a few minutes to kill before my appointment so I decided to grab a few shots outside. The shot above is looking North at the 345 Park Avenue address. On the left is the West Tower and on the right is the East Tower. Just barely visible between the two towers is the newest 3rd tower called the Almaden Tower¨Cwhere the "suits" (executives) work.

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More about "da plane, da plane" later, but I must say that once inside, you never ever hear the planes. Yes, from 10 West, the Photoshop floor, you can sure see them really well, but the soundproofing inside the towers is very good.

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Back inside and up the staircase (or elevator) you'll find the main second floor reception.

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Here's the main entry to the reception area and security. Visitors must sign in and be "escorted" into the upper floors. Even though my badge always says Escort Required, once past security, I usually have full roaming rights. However, it's not a good idea to get into it with Adobe security¨Cthey don't care who you are or who you know. In fact, I was snapping some shots of the lobby and the security guard said "no photography". Ok, so I just lowered the camera, didn't look through the lens and kept shooting, covertly. Jeeeze, I hope I didn't get those guys into any trouble. :~)

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I was early and unfortunately, all the engineers seemed to be in the same meeting¨CI called about a half dozen of them but I had to wait a few minutes to get my escort. The reception lobby is pretty hightech with a lot of glass and stone and leather. There's an interesting display of backlit screens with product designs and several with video against the wall.

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　Finally, somebody answered their phone and Chris Cox came down to escort me to the 10th floor. My first visit was supposed to be with John Nack, but he had been in the same meeting with everybody else. Here's John in his office (right).

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John, who was recently promoted to Senior Product Manager for Photoshop likes flags-such as the "Don't Tread On Me" first used by the Continental Navy in 1775. A variation of the Gansden flag this variation was used as the U.S. Navy Jack. Not sure why a kid from Galena, Illinois (John's hometown) is into the Navy Jack, but he seems to like flags.

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Here's John posing with the Big Box, a promotional over-sized Photoshop CS2 package. It's only incidental that I posed him as though he's "carrying Photoshop". But with little prompting on my part, he struck his famous "kiss the bicep" pose. More about that later.

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Just down the hall is Julieanne Kost's office. I snuck up on her and snapped a shot before she realized who I was. Fortunately, Julieanne was happy to see me.

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Next was a snap of Joe Ault. Joe chased me with his CD Sword, actually, it's a prop left over from a party.

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My next shooting victim was Russell Williams. The first shutter release made him turn around and the second release caught a really good "deer caught in the headlights" look.

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John Nack had set up lunch with the "Bridge Builders", the engineering team working on Adobe Bridge. They always like taking me out to lunch because it's a perfect excuse to expense the lunch¨Ca customer meeting, don't ya know. :~)

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Since I was there on a Friday, of course I had to go down to Cafe Adobe for the Friday Beer Bash.

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　Left, Scott is getting small, center, Cris Rys is getting tall and Lynn looking happy.

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Best T-Shirt seen? Cris Rys' "Adobe Merging" T-Shirt commemorating Adobe's pending merger with Macromedia. UPDATE: I've received a correction, Lynn Shade emailed me to say "the "Merging" t-shirts were made 3 years ago when our Pro UI Team "took over" the Consumer UI team ¡ª the Consumer UI guys made that shirt. Which was pretty funny." Thanks for the correction Lynn. Ironic that I assumed it was related to Macromedia and it wasn't!

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