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Quark company history timeline
Aldus had introduced PageMaker in 1986; it was the first full-featured page make-up program to appear.
In 1986 Fred Ebrahimi joined Quark as CEO and co-owner.
In 1988 Quark went international, establishing customer service and technical support offices across Europe and the Far East.
In 1989 Quark introduced QuarkStyle, an inexpensive ($295) and scaled-down version of QuarkXPress.
PageMaker dominated DTP software for Windows with a 61 percent market share in 1990.
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.
In 1990, Mark Pope sold his share of the company to the other partners.
In the fall of 1992 Quark again delayed the release of QuarkXPress 3.1 for Windows until December.
In 1994 the company announced job opportunities for 100 new employees, including several senior management positions.
However, translating the program into different languages for its international version, which supported eight languages, delayed the release of version 3.3 until later in 1994.
In 1994 Quark announced a scaled-down version of its Quark Publishing System editorial management software that would be priced at $7,500, plus an additional $3,000 for six months of technical support and training.
In 1995 Quark announced plans to launch Xposure, an image editor designed to compete with Adobe's popular Photoshop program.
During 1995 reports appeared in the Denver Business Journal that Quark was planning to go public, in spite of repeated denials the previous year by company founder Tim Gill.
Quarklmmedia went into beta testing in February and was due for a mid-1996 release.
In 1996 Quark purchased a minority interest in Colossal Pictures of San Francisco.
In 1997 Quark acquired mFactory, which made a multimedia authoring package called mTropolis.
At the beginning of 1998 Quark acquired Coris Inc., a subsidiary of R.R. Donnelley and Sons that made Coris Publisher 3.0, which had multimedia capabilities.
Quarklmmedia version 1.5 was released toward the end of 1998.
In 1999 Quark was developing a dynamic web publishing system under the code name Troika.
The release of Adobe Creative Suite in 2003, essentially including InDesign with Photoshop and Illustrator, resulted in ongoing market share loss for QuarkXPress. Therefore, many customers welcomed the release of Adobe InDesign in 1999 as a viable alternative.
As of mid-2000 Quark was circulating demo copies of QuarkXPress 5, but it was unclear whether the upgrade would incorporate Adobe's PDF technology, which was the basis for Adobe Acrobat.
In keeping with its India focus, Quark appointed Kamar Aulakh, a Quark veteran of Indian origin, as its CEO in February, 2004.
In June 2005, Quark informed its employees that Aulakh was no longer with the company.
On November 1, 2006, Quark appointed Raymond Schiavone, former CEO of Arbortext, as its new CEO.
At the end of 2006 Fred Ebrahimi gave all his shares of Quark Inc. to his children, with his daughter Sasha Ebrahimi taking the position of chairman.
As a result, under the new leadership of Raymond Schiavone, Quark started to refocus its resources towards the enterprise dynamic publishing market (now Content Automation), announcing a new strategy in March 2008.
On August 9, 2011, the Ebrahimi family sold all their shares to Platinum Equity, a California-based private equity firm.
Parallax Capital Partners subsequently acquired Quark Software Inc. from Platinum Equity on July 12, 2017, stating their intentions to invest in growing the company's new content automation business through organic growth and acquisitions.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe | 1982 | $21.5B | 11,847 | 991 |
| 1998 | $350.0B | 139,995 | 4,281 | |
| VMware | 1998 | $13.4B | 31,000 | 2 |
| Citrix | 1989 | $3.2B | 9,000 | 6 |
| Intuit | 1983 | $16.3B | 10,600 | 1,077 |
| Juniper Networks | 1996 | $5.1B | 9,400 | - |
| Informatica | 1993 | $1.6B | 5,249 | 6 |
| IBM | 1911 | $62.8B | 270,000 | 3,725 |
| Red Hat | 1993 | $3.4B | 13,400 | 143 |
| Instructure | 2008 | $530.2M | 1,200 | 13 |
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