Adobe takes Acrobat.com out of beta, launches paid subscriptions

Jake Widman
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 02:05

Business IT - Technology

In the announcement, Adobe described other ways the company is working on enhancing Acrobat.com's online collaboration features.

“Over the next 12 months, we will continue to add powerful yet simple-to-use team collaboration capabilities that establish a new way to work, while removing barriers to getting work done within and across companies and around the world,” said Tarkoff.

For example, the company plans to provide workspaces in which teams can track collaborative documents without having to worry about version control.

There are also plans for mobile access, so that subscribers can use documents on the service from iPhones, Blackberrys, Nokia, and Windows Mobile smartphones.

"Social media style updates," in the company's words, will enable participants to receive messages about what's been done to a document and what's needed next.

Adobe is also continuing to beef up its suite of online applications, which already includes the Buzzword word processor and recently introduced Presentations.

Today the company added the public beta of Tables, a "spreadsheet-like application."

For more on Adobe's online applications, see Page 3.