Adobe has released the Connect products to the general public. For those new to the software, it was really just a reworking of the previous Macromedia product "Breeze". Connect will help you to bring an interactive environment to your sales and/or training sessions.

"The feedback from users during our Acrobat Connect trial the past few months has been overwhelmingly positive. It has reinforced our belief that the product stands apart from traditional web conferencing solutions in terms of ease-of-use, elegance, and the instant access it provides anyone with an Adobe Flash enabled browser," said Tom Hale, senior vice president, Knowledge Worker Business Unit at Adobe. "Now that we're delivering the hosted service at an extremely approachable price, we expect knowledge workers to begin making Acrobat Connect personal meeting rooms as much a part of their daily work as email and the phone."

Acrobat Connect is now available for a subscription price of US$39 per month, or US$395 per year per personal meeting room and there is also a professional version available.

Also, it appears that they have renamed the "Breeze Presenter" to be the "Connect Presenter" to fall in line with the "Connect" name. Presenter allows users to convert ordinary PowerPoint presentations into interactive flash demos with sound and video. The good thing is that it seems from this link below that the licenses for the Connect Presenter may be easier to get separate from the Connect servers.

Was it just me or was anyone else surprised to see this fall into the Acrobat line of products?

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/purchase/software/ - shows the different license options

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnect/ - Adobe Connect homepage

http://www.adobe.com/products/presenter/ - Adobe Presenter homepage