Those secretly hoping that Adobe's Creative Suite 3 will come out sooner than initially announced can think again. In an interview with Forbes.com, Bruce Chizen, Adobe Systems CEO once again set the date for CS3 in 2007.

"Acrobat is coming in the fourth quarter of 2006. Creative Suite 3 will be introduced in the second quarter of 2007. Acrobat will take advantage of the Macromedia assets. And you'll see a lot of activity in the CS3 launch. There will be a lot of integration between [Macromedia] products and [Adobe] products as part of those offerings. By the time we launch CS3, the value of the two companies will be clear," Chizen said.

Adobe's timeline has been the subject of much heated discussion, and Mac users are not at all happy that they have to wait another year to be able to take advantage of the new machines, by the time Creative Suite 3 becomes available, Apple will have had the pro Macs out for half a year, if Apple manages to stay on track.

Ever since Adobe first announced that their products would be available as Universal Binaries in 2007, many have hinted that Apple could very well expand the capabilities of Aperture and take a significant chunk of Adobe customers under their wing. While Apple has not made any comment or statement in this regard, Aperture is seeing significant improvements, many of which deal with manipulating the images.