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Adobe has entered the growing cloud computing space.  Their flagship Acrobat product, along with Adobe Connect, have been combined into a free cloud product. 

http://www.acrobat.com 
Adobe’s Acrobat website is written in flash and provides access to different products. Here’s their description: Use Acrobat.com to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others.

The create and share documents part is Adobe Buzzword, which is their Google Docs competition. It is also another company with a strong cloud word processing presence completed before Microsoft.  They used Flash to write it, and because of that it doesn’t have the limitations of html. They also have some cool sharing and collboration features, including recent version history, so if someone accidentally deletes an important part of your shared document, you’ll be able to go to a previous version and get the information back.

In addition, they have a version of their connect product that lets you meet live over the web and share your screen with other people.  They also are using this to sell Acrobat. They have an online trial version that lets you create five .pdf documents.

This is a strong cloud computing contender for Adobe and it continues to challenge the desktop model.