Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). We'll go first to Brent Thill with Citigroup.
Brent Thill - Citigroup
Thanks. Mark, may be if you could address the cash position, $2.3 billion and your potential plans for a larger buyback at some point?
Mark Garrett
Hey, Brent, thanks. Obviously, we've got a lot of cash. We're looking at our excess cash balance. And we're focused on delivering that cash back to shareholders in the best way possible, which we believe is a share buyback, and we'll talk more about that at the Analyst Day.
Brent Thill - Citigroup
Okay. And just a follow-up on Apollo. When do you think that's going to have a broader impact on the financial model?
Shantanu Narayen
Brent this is Shantanu. We are pretty excited. Yesterday was the first day we got the alpha build-out for developers to start to deliver applications on top of Apollo. The reality is in 2007, we are not really going to see a revenue impact of Apollo. But it's really the next phase of what we are doing with PDF and Flash as well.
Brent Thill - Citigroup
Thanks.
Operator
We'll go next to Jay Vleeschhouwer with Merrill Lynch.
Jay Vleeschhouwer - Merrill Lynch
Thanks. Good afternoon. Bruce, you're going to be announcing, as you've pointed out, an unusually large number of new products next week. Can you walk us through what some of the new or different logistical or marketing challenges might be that you have to manage given the number of products that you will have? And is it fair to assume that you're going to have staggered releases of the 14 products, for example, will the Video products ship as late as the summer?
Secondly, on Acrobat you pointed out that desktop had its second best quarter. But it would seem from some of the sales data that Acrobat 7 hung around so to say a little bit longer and had a little bit more material impact during the first few months of 8's availability than we saw two years ago with 6? Is there something different going on here in terms of how quickly you are transitioning from the previous version to the new version or is this a shift to 2.3 that you're seeing in the Creative Solutions number?
Bruce Chizen
Jay, first of all regarding the Creative Suite, we've had about a year-and-a-half to get this right. And I can assure you that we have gotten that right and it's well planned, well thought out. We will be introducing 13 new applications, 19 different product configurations, seven technologies that cut across all of those applications and two services. It's clearly the biggest release in the Adobe's 25-year history of being in business. We're excited about it. The revenue for Q2 is already factored into the guidance that we have provided.
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