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Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Pankaj — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:51:28 -0000

Interestingly, acrobat.com hasn't been compared to Google Wave, while there is a lot of conceptual similarity - Collaboration platforms which are freeform.

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Esteban Contreras — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:33:23 -0000

Erik Larson (Sr. Director of Marketing and Product Management for Acrobat.com) on Flash Ubiquity and the Collaboration Equation:

http://socialnerdia.com/ind...

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Taylor Norrish — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:24:14 -0000

I love Acrobat.com ConnectNow. Looking forward to checking out these new tools.

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

rfwilkins — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:01:33 -0000

With all the tools/Apps moving to the cloud. Keep on eye on Acrobat.com. Adobes App suite. I still think that Google is in a better position with google pro apps, even though the interface is not as slick. When google adds #wave to the mix they are going to be hard to beat.

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

anonymuos — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:20:29 -0000

If they do a downloadable AIR app that doesn't require an Adobe ID and can save and print without going online, count me in.

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Brian — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:47:28 -0000

Buzzword is nice and has a better set of document features than Google Docs. I found it to be easier to use than Google docs as well. I've been playing with it for a year now. Neither are replacements for many people where I work since they rely heavily on other powerful Word features like Mail Merge, etc.

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

andrew — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:00:55 -0000

Adobe needs to fire the person that keeps making their designs in tones of gray...

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

stream_tutor_and_learn — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:18:27 -0000

I have used it in the Beta stages. In my opinion, it serves better for business not education. I wanted smoother transitions and markups of documents while working students. It seemed like I was always looking from what I uploaded. Plus the uploaded document was not in the right place for the Whiteboard. I like things to flow. It was cumbersome...I will give it another try to see.

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Ivy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:15:59 -0000

Interested to see how this will make a dent on the market, especially when MS Office still dominates a lot of the office software market.

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Jack Niu — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:06:44 -0000

Go to google, adobe will make a new success!

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Scott Barrington — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:38:37 -0000

Looks really sharp. Another great product from Adobe.

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Stephen — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:37:58 -0000

Wow... let's see what this bad boy can do.

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

markfinch — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:36:49 -0000

@jamaipanese

I agree. I must have missed the memo awhile back because I wasn't even aware that Adobe was making a move on the office space. I will need to play with it for awhile as well.

Although the flash requirement makes this suite less desirable to me than Google Docs. I like to have access from just about every device I connect to the Internet with. Currently many phones don't support flash and I don't expect it to be a big feature in the mobile market anytime soon.

@chris below
HTML 5 will take awhile to really make a dent in content. IE6 still commands around 20% of the browser market according to some stats. Developers still have to code to include the old standards so I wouldn't look for a landslide move to HTML5 anytime soon.

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Henry Tombe — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:27:19 -0000

Acrobat.com - create PDF does not support docx format :-(

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Henry Tombe — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:26:23 -0000

Create PDF does not support docx format :-(

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Chris — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:19:14 -0000

Looks like a decent offering & smart move on Adobe's part as with the coming of HTML 5 Flash is soon going to be dead (for the majority of web content).

Before they release the Air client they best figure out the memory footprint issues & leaks, I don't want to need 8GB or ram to run their suite. ;)

Re: Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

Mark Grilli — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:17:37 -0000

Hi Ben,
Thanks for the write up from the acrobat.com team. One small correction, you mention in the last paragraph that our premium offers allow for 5 people in the document. The 5 person limit actually applies to the capacity of the ConnectNow meeting room for holding online meetings. If you are sharing documents, creating documents in Buzzword, you can have an unlimited number of participants. Thanks again,
Mark