Comments on: Adobe makes Acrobat.com a business with paid accounts

Adobe is finally starting to charge for some of its Acrobat.com services, but fear not; many of the ones that were free during the beta period are still free.

[ewelch]

Dream on Adobe.

[AvatarXone]

This is only really competing with Google , thinkfree and zoho. they will be the ones finding the need to battle it with Adobe. Office Web will just crush anything on its path since it is launching with a online one note version, perfect office 2003-2007 integration and it also got Office Live as the bridge between them. that is without adding the extra integration you can have with Microsoft Online Services for that matter in the case of the enterprise adopting it. i do see adobe offering interesting and powerful enough to be a pain for Google, Zoho and thinkfree to battle thanks to the amount of services Acrobat.com actually entails right now alone and because Adobe does got the enterprise and office DNA needed to raise hell against Google, Zoho and thinkfree.

[dabbleboard]

I bet a bunch of our startups are competing at some level with Acrobat.com (<a href="http://almostmeet.com">ours</a> competes with ConnectNow). Adobe is becoming quite a formidable competitor in the web space. I'm a little relieved by their pricing; it's not cheap enough to kill all competition.

[mikehill33]

Worthless. Adobe is so far off the mark on the experience of their products, they are the GM of the software world.

[tenbosch]

They need to buy the domain acrobot.com as well. My bad!

[worried1]

With all the free methods to work togather why would you want to pay $14 or $40?
PDF documents are OK but is it worth the price just use the free office products available. I for one am tired of getting PDF forms that can not be modified for free if you want me to fill in a form then do not use PDF.

[BtmnHatesRbn]

Using Mac OS X, I have no need for any of Adobe's Acrobat-related products. To convert anything to PDF, I just Print, choose Print as PDF and voila, I'm done. Then I just e-mail that to people.

[Renegade Knight]

Unsing Windows, you also have no need of any of Adobe's products. However OS X rather sucks are it's PDF implementation (haven't used the print option yet) and it was worth installing the real thing. Ditto on the 3rd party PDF apps on windows. So far for reading a PDF, nothing beats Adobe (that I've found).

That all said, I'm stick of Adobe's boalt and crapware. They installed adobe.com on my PC when I don't want it, don't use it, and would rather never look at it. I activly avoid extra installs and still got stuck with it. As for as the rest of the boat and crap, it's almost as bad as iTunes.

[liquidmetalband]

This is somewhat of a joke. Why would you pay for a PDF conversion when there are many tools out there that already do it for free?

[paultran888]

If you have ideas for Acrobat.com, please post them on their Ideas Portal: http://ideas.acrobat.com.

[clearair43]

I've been waiting for this for 6-8 months.

ConnectNow screensharing is the hidden gem in this suite.

[Aaron Kempf]

connectnow screensharing-- uh this has been built into windows for the past 10 years, it's called 'remote control' in Remote Desktop.

[kralimarko]

Remote desktop is windows only and it is only that - remote desktop. It does not support video or audio. You can't save the meeting for later view and so on. ConnectNow works on all platforms supported by flash player. For instance you can have meeting with people running mix of win, macosx and linux.

If Remote Desktop was enough for the business companies like Citrix wouldn't exist.

[forever4now]

It's great that Adobe is also getting into the online docs game. This will help to accelerate the innovation with this class of web apps, from all of the different vendors.

Hopefully, Adobe plans to offer all of their products via web apps, so that people running any OS (Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, etc.) and using any device (smartphone, smartbook/netbook, eReader, etc.) will be able to use them.

[aMUSICsite]

Is it just me or has this site been down for the last 24 hours!