Can Adobe out-code Microsoft, Google?

With the arrival of its online office product, Adobe Systems is putting Microsoft and Google on notice that viable alternatives do exist to the industry's reigning hegemons. What sort of impact the new products will have obviously won't be known for months. But the release is intriguing a lot of people who have weighed into the blogosphere conversation today.

This nifty-looking application suite allows users to create word processing documents, share files, convert PDFs, and hold Web conferences. Adobe also took the wraps off Acrobat 9, which includes support for Flash. You can test out the office suite with the beta of Acrobat.com that became available today.

Acrobat 9, set to reach stores in July, will be priced differently, according to feature functionality. The Standard version is priced at $299 or $99 to upgrade, Pro for $449 or $159 to upgrade, and Pro Extended for $699 or $229 to upgrade. Pro Extended also comes with Adobe Presenter, which can connect to Microsoft PowerPoint 2007.

Does it make sense for your needs? And where is Adobe heading with its product plans? Check out this video I did earlier with CNET's Elsa Wenzel, who offers her impressions after giving Adobe's product suite a run-through.

[JCPayne]

Adobe might be a good Apple acquisition target. Then they'd have Dreamweaver, Photoshop Acrobat etc. firmly under their control.

[JCPayne]

Adobe might be a good Apple acquisition target. Then they'd have Dreamweaver, Photoshop Acrobat etc. firmly under their control.

[ErikLarson]

Hi Guys, sorry about that! You should be able to get in to Acrobat.com now, but we were pretty busy this morning ;-). You arrived as we were recovering from a simple but bad mistake (I imagine we'll blog about it eventually, when things settle down a bit). I look forward to hearing what you think once you give it try. And more is coming soon. You can read more about our plans and vision on our blog at http://blogs.adobe.com/acom.

[JCPayne]

Adobe might be a good Apple acquisition target. Then Apple would have Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc. firmly under their wing and they could make sure there's always versions available for Apple PCs...

[JCPayne]

What is up with this message board software???? It tells you it doesn't go through then all of a sudden multiple ones show up....

[goldngrl]

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