Adobe RH Server 6 = "Adobe RH6 + Additional features"

Question

Greetings to all :-)
Right now, I'm working on the trial version of RH2002. My
company and ofcourse all our members are new to RH. My PM was
impressed on the help file which i developed using this trial
version. At last, he decided to purchase the latest version of RH
and he gave me a list and asked which one to purchase. Here is the
list:
No Item Rate
1 RoboHelp Office 6 WIN (1 lic) Rs 55,400.00
2 RoboHelp Office 6 Win (2 - 14 lics) Rs 53,600.00
3 RoboHelp Office 6 WIN (15+ lics) Rs 52,500.00
4 RoboHelp Server 6 WIN (1 - 7 lics) Rs 108,000.00
5 RoboHelp Server 6 WIN (8+ lics) Rs 105,000.00
I browsed the adobe site to know the latest version. I came
to an understanding that "Adobe RH Server 6" has got more
additional features that "Adobe RH6" and cooly said to him, that
we'll go in for "Adobe RH server 6" (5th item specified in the
list) I've also worked on the trial version of "Adobe RH6" but i've
not even tried "Adboe RH Server 6" thinking that some additional
features specified in the adobe site would be available in this.
Lateron, i entered into the forum, to see if there were any
topics discussed regarding this...ofcourse there were many...really
i was much more afraid on seeing those relevant topics and kindly
excuse me as i need some more clarity....Are these two separate
products???. To go in for "Adobe RH server 6", should we purchase
"Adobe RH6" also. I thought, if we purchase "Adobe RH Server 6", we
will have get the same "Adobe RH6 software (Help authoring tool)"
with some additional features". Pls give me your valuable inputs on
this as this is killing me because i've already informed my PM
without understanding the products in detail.
Should I ask for "Adobe RH Server6" or "both 'Adobe RH
Server6' and Adobe RH6'"
Thanks a lot in advance!!

Answer 1

Hi, Launcher1
I certainly don't want to discourage you from looking at
RoboHelp Server 6. At the same time I want to help you understand
the differences.
Your two main needs apparently are: to link and search among
multiple merged projects. You can do that NOW with "plain" WebHelp
(or FlashHelp) without RoboHelp Server!
So, what would you get extra with RH Server 6 and what
exactly are the Pro advantages? For that, you might want to take a
look at my article on the Adobe Developer Network which covers
Adobe RoboHelp Server 6.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/rhserver_06.html
So, basically, the "Pro" version provided by RH Server 6
gives you Feedback Reports on what your users are looking for and
the ability to search the text of MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint and
Adobe Acrobat PDF files which you cannot do with the "plain"
RoboHelp 6. These are tremendous advantages and many companies find
this worth the extra money. Remember, you don't have to buy RH
Server for each author, only one copy for the server. The authors
get RH 6.
As for "porting" RH 6 to RH Server 6, that's simple. You
really don't need to port them at all! You simply take the exact
same project from the RH 6 authoring tool and publish it to the RH
Server 6. So, it's not so much the tool you use to develop the
project (it's the same in all cases). Rather, it is the destination
of where you publish the project that makes the difference.
Hope this helps. If it doesn't, ask some more!
Thanx,
john