Acrobat.com or Adobe Connect 8?

Acrobat.com and Adobe Connect are similar technologies but not exactly the same.

Adobe Connect is designed for corporate, educational and government organozations while Acrobat.com is designed for home and small business users. Adobe Connect is avaialble as an on-premise or hosted solution and each server instance can handle 500 simulataneous users with 100 maximum in one meeting room. Acrobat.com can only scale to 20 users per room simultaneously. Adobe Connect has the ability to run Flex based applications in a collaborative manner inside a meeting and can handle unlimited webcams. Adobe Connect has optional Microsoft Outlook and IBM Lotus Notes plug-ins to schedule meetings from those email clients. Adobe Connect Desktop is an optional Air application that allows you to create new meetings, manage your meetings and watch previously recorded meetings locally off-line. Adobe Connect 8 on-premise can integrate with SIP/h.264 devices such as Tandberg and Polycom teleconference room cameras. Adobe Connect has a wide range of additional pods that are available on the Adobe Connect Exchange.  None of these functions are available for Acrobat.com.

If you have a specific question, please let me know and I can explain further:  hdrummon@Adobe.com