New Service Creates Community for Creative Professionals on Adobe.com

Seybold Boston (February 9, 2000) (Nasdaq:ADBE)--Continuing to make Adobe.com a destination site for creative professionals, Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the launch of Adobe Job Connection
(http://www.adobe.com/jobconnection).

An online resource center on Adobe.com for creative professionals who want to expand their reach by offering services and conducting business on the Web, Adobe Job Connection includes a host of services from Adobe and its partners, including Adobe®ePortfolio, JobOptions™, HOW Magazine, WebEx, and Red Gorilla. Through these partnerships, Adobe Job Connection visitors can conduct much of their day to day business online. Services offered include posting creative work samples, searching for qualified employers and employees, hosting online meetings, distributing invoices and more.

"Adobe Job Connection will help creative professionals manage their work and careers more efficiently," said Gloria Chen, Adobe.com’s director of Strategy and Business Development. "From budding freelance businesses to established design firms, Job Connection helps creative professionals connect to the right tools for running their businesses."

Adobe Job Connection features Adobe ePortfolio, which allows creative professionals to post their work samples and resumes online. Prospective employers may also use Adobe ePortfolio to find talented professionals with the skills and experience required for a wide variety of creative jobs.

Adobe ePortfolio Sweepstakes
Beginning February 7, 2000, Adobe Job Connection visitors who register on the free ePortfolio service are automatically entered into a sweepstakes to win a first prize consisting of a design workstation featuring an Apple iMac DV, an Adobe Web Collection software bundle, and a copy of Adobe InDesign™. Five second prize winners will each receive Adobe’s GoLive™4.0 software.*

Additional Services Offered on Adobe Job Connection
For Adobe.com visitors seeking jobs in any industry, considering relocation or just looking at what’s available, Adobe Job Connection features a customized, co-branded site with JobOptions . Providing comprehensive career services, JobOptions.com enables job seekers to search employers for open positions, access career tools and advice, and sign-up for custom job alert emails.

WebEx’s real-time communications infrastructure allows Adobe Job Connection visitors to instantly share everything from documents and presentations to applications and desktops. By delivering real-time data, voice and video through a standard browser, WebEx transforms the Web into a live, interactive meeting place.

An alliance with Red Gorilla allows Adobe.com Job Connection visitors to easily capture time and expenses, then create and deliver professional-looking invoices through a simple Web interface.

About Adobe.com
Adobe.com is the premier online resource that serves design innovators, creative enthusiasts and professionals worldwide. Organized in four centers – Web, Print, Motion and ePaper – Adobe.com’s information-rich, targeted content and services complement the Adobe customer’s desktop. Each center helps customers locate products and services needed to do their work, keep their skills up to date, manage their careers, and leverage the Web to collaborate and work with others in the community.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems (www.adobe.com) builds award-winning software solutions for Web and print publishing. Its graphic design, imaging, dynamic media, and authoring tools enable customers to create, publish and deliver visually rich content for various types of media. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is the fourth largest U.S.-based personal software company, with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion.

*No purchase is necessary to enter the Adobe ePortfolio Sweepstakes. Contest runs from February 7, 2000 through March 10, 2000. Visitors must be age 18 or older residing in the U.S. or Canada (excluding Quebec). Apple iMac DV workstation and Adobe software total approximate value U.S. $3097. Adobe GoLive 4.0 software approximate value U.S. $276. See the "Official Rules" at http://www.adobe.com/ePortfolio for details.

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