Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) We’ll go first to Jay Vleeschhouwer with Merrill Lynch.
Jay Vleeschhouwer - Merrill Lynch
Shantanu, we’ve seen I think good evidence of the long tail effect both for Creative Suite and especially now for Acrobat. The question is to what extent do you think the long tail effect is managed or manageable versus simply having been a fortuitous outcome owing to some market conditions let’s say over the last number of quarters?
Secondly, over the last number of quarters, we’ve heard Adobe use the term services substantially more often than we’ve ever heard in your history before. Could you talk about the kinds of investments you are making in creating the infrastructure and support that you have in place to have more a services based business, such as Photoshop Express, Connect and other new businesses you’ve talked about?
Shantanu Narayen
So Jay, there were two questions; the first was about the fact that both the Creative business and the Acrobat business have continued to perform many quarters after the release and I think it’s a reflection frankly of what we have been saying -- namely the available market opportunity for those products are fairly large. In the case of Acrobat, for example, we continue to see adoption against the over $100 million that we’ve outlined as the available market opportunity for Acrobat. And as we’ve said, we’ve only sold $30 million to date.
The second thing that we are certainly seeing is more adoption of Acrobat within enterprises. That’s being driven by our field organization, so I think those two factors are certainly contributing to the long tail in Acrobat.
And we’ve announced Acrobat 9 and said that we had record revenue in the previous quarter, which we think is a really good accomplishment.
On the creative side as well, as we talk about the available market available for us and the number of creative people who are trying to create content for print, web, video and wireless, we continue to think that’s a large opportunity. And so like with all other product cycles, you see the early adopters move through it quickly. You see larger enterprises take a little bit more time in terms of how they move, maybe one section of a magazine before moving the entire industry over.
And so we are pleased with the CS performance, especially as we also come up on a new version that includes Acrobat 9. And as you see, we’ve also announced new betas which have been very positively received.
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