HiI am sure many users will find this information valuable, especially for those not willing to have english-only applications.
Its now possible to have english, french and german trials from the Adobe CS3 products. Actually only english versions are on the website of Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop
but you can log on this site and then go to a second window and open: http://trials-staging.adobe.com/Applications/Photoshop/CS3/Mac/
There you have the english, french and german trial versions....
You can also have all others like indesign, illustrator, fireworks, dreamweaver, flash.....
We also want to comment the explanation provided by Dave Burkett, the vice president of product management in the Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe, to respond to the criticism that its EU prices are unfairly high (here).
According to him: We [Adobe] use two broad criteria to establish pricing in each local currency where we do business. The first is the historical cost of doing business in each region. Pricing varies widely...The European Union is not one big market (he must be kidding) There are four major currencies (beside the Euro and £ I do not think of any other major currencies), and last but not least, the second criterion Adobe uses to establish pricing is "market research that establishes the value customers place on the products", in other words they have their own scale and try to give it a name, I really wonder what this really means.
The most amazing part come with the mention that English, spanish and french versions of CS3 are available for the North American market, while same french and spanish versions are much more expensive in Europe... he probably forgot that more than 170 millions european citizens have english, French or spanish as their mother tongue! So it can not really explain why at least those version are more expensive in Europe! Only the german version of CS3 might be considered as a European only version, but it is worth 90 millions EU citizens...
