Everyone is looking for software alternatives these days. It’s a given fact with postings in the blogosphere like ”10 Alternatives to (enter software here)”. Well, Adobe has been busy this month with new releases and one of them is Acrobat.com, a website that may be the alternative you’re looking for.
Acrobat.com is a bundle of online services of Adobe software tools you use every day- file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor and even web conferencing. So how does Acrobat.com online stack up against Adobe
desktop software?
If you haven’t gotten around to checking it out or committing to it with an account, here are some links on resources, user reviews and commentaries to see what users are saying about this major online alternative and what it’s all about.
*TechCrunch gives you a brief rundown of Acrobat.com.
*See what other blogs on Technorati had to say about the news.
*A few user weaknesses you should know about Acrobat.com that ars technica made note of.
*If you need a bit of orientation on what the major components of Acrobat.com do, PC Advisor looks at each of them in turn: Buzzword, ConnectNow, Adobe Share and access to online PDF creator.
*Check out the Acrobat.com blog written by the Acrobat.com designers themselves. See what they have in mind for the site.
*Don Fluckinger, writing for PDFZone, takes an interesting look at the implications of Acrobat.com as Adobe’s competition against. . .itself?
*And no online service is complete without an Acrobat.com forum to connect with other users. The discussions and questions have already started.
Whether you look at Acrobat.com as a godsend, a competition killer, or a reason to change the way you work, you have to admit you can’t get any better alternative to Adobe desktop software than Adobe software online.
