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Note 17. Industry Segment, Geographic Information, and Significant Customers
Coinciding with the integration of Macromedia and the start of fiscal 2006, we changed the reporting
of our segments to be aligned with our market opportunities and how we manage our combined businesses.
For comparability, the prior fiscal period’s results have been reclassified to reflect the realignment of the
segments and do not include the impact of our acquisition of Macromedia.
We have the following segments: Creative Solutions, Knowledge Worker Solutions, Enterprise and
Developer Solutions, Mobile and Device Solutions, and Other, which includes the Print and Classic
Publishing and Platform segments. Our Creative Solutions segment focuses on delivering a complete
professional line of integrated tools for a full range of creative and developer tasks to an extended set of
customers. This segment combines most of the products of our prior Creative Professional and Digital
Imaging and Video business segments, along with the creative professional-focused products and solutions
that we obtained through our acquisition of Macromedia. The Knowledge Worker Solutions segment
focuses on the needs of knowledge worker customers, providing essential applications and services to help
them share information and collaborate. This segment contains revenue generated by Adobe Acrobat
Connect and our Acrobat family of products. Our Enterprise segment provides server-based enterprise
interaction solutions that automate people-centric processes. The segment contains revenue generated by
our LiveCycle, ColdFusion and Flex lines of products. The Mobile and Device Solutions segment provides
solutions that create compelling experiences through rich content, user interfaces, and data services on
mobile and non-PC devices such as cellular phones, consumer devices and internet connected hand-held
devices. Finally, Other contains several of our products and services which address market opportunities
ranging from the diverse publishing needs of technical and business publishing, to our legacy type and
OEM printing businesses, to new strategic opportunities such as OEM revenue generated from our desktop
technology platform– which includes Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player applications.
The accounting policies of the operating segments are the same as those described in the summary of
significant accounting policies. With the exception of goodwill, we do not identify or allocate our assets by
the operating segments.