Adobe completed the acquisition of Macromedia on December 3 this year. As a result of the acquisition, its staff strength in India has grown to 650 from 504. Though Macromedia and Adobe are functioning as seperate legal entities in India, work on integrating them was in progress.
"We will add another 300 plus engineers in India in 2006 and continue with the trend of doubling the headcount every 18 to 24 months," Adobe India managing director and member of global management team of the company, Naresh Gupta, said.
"Of the total additions, 200 will be in Noida and 100 in Bangalore," he added. Adobe's India office is the largest for the company outside US. "It accounts for 12 per cent of Adobe's employee strength and 25 per cent of total engineering strength," he said.
Since setting up its development centre at Noida in late 1997, the Adobe team in India has filed for 30 patents.
Gupta said the work on a PDF reader in Hindi was in progress. "Depending on the feedback we can launch PDF readers in other Indian languages too," he added.
The company started with an investment of $3 million in India and in 2001 announced another $10 million investment.