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Quark Software Inc. (founded 1981 in Denver, Colorado) is a privately owned software company which specializes in omni-channel enterprise publishing software for automating the production of high-value customer communications. The company's original goal was to "create software that would be the platform for publishing", just as quarks are the basis for all matter. The company is best known for its desktop page layout and design software, QuarkXPress, although this has now become secondary to its enterprise software solutions. ==Company history== Quark was founded with $2000 in 1981 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Between 1981 and 1985 their primary products were Word Juggler and Catalyst. Word Juggler was the first word processor on the Apple III. Catalyst was a program that was distributed bundled with the Apple IIe, and allowed users to run floppy-disk based applications from their hard drive. They also attempted a product line called "Quark Peripherals", but the market for storage devices at the time resulted in a huge financial loss. In 1986 Quark released QuarkXPress 1.0, which due to its precision quickly gained marketshare from Aldus Pagemaker. With the release of QuarkXPress 3.0 in 1990, Quark quickly achieved a dominant position in the desktop publishing market and became the standard for desktop publishing. By the end of the 1990s they gathered a market share of around 90% worldwide. In the late 1990s, Quark faced intense criticism for slow innovation cycles, high prices, and a poor response to customer needs. Therefore, many customers welcomed the release of Adobe InDesign in 1999 as a viable alternative. The release of Adobe Creative Suite in 2003, essentially including InDesign with Photoshop and Illustrator, resulted in ongoing market share loss for QuarkXPress. As a result, under the new leadership of Raymond Schiavone, Quark started to refocus its resources towards the enterprise dynamic publishing market, announcing a new strategy and direction in March 2008. Quark continues to develop QuarkXPress but the company's primary focus is now on its enterprise publishing solutions that enable large, global organizations to automate the publishing process from content authoring through to multi-channel output, with mobile adoption being a significant driver. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quark (company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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