Creating Fillable Forms

I have seen questions very simiar to this one, but not precisely the same.  I spoke with your enterprise support division and they said it is possible to create fillable forms using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 standard or Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional.  Is that correct?  I am unable to find the procedures for doing this.
thank you,
Robert

Send the form to 500 people
1) Each Form?
2) What happens if you go over?
3)What if one of those 500 people them forwards it to someone else? Is that person part of the 500?
4)How does Adobe keep track?
1) Each "unique" form can be sent to 500 people and they can fill it out an infinite amount of times
2) well, a couple of the local agencies in our state went over and are now in litigation with Adobe
3)Yes. %00 people per form total. No matter how they end up getting it
4)Not sure anyone outside of Adobe can answer that (and they probably wouldn't tell you if there were some definitive way of tracking). In our local cases, they just got busted
unlimited amount of people and collect the data 500 times
1) What happens when we go over 500 times
2)Each form?
3)What happens if one of those unlimited people then sends it along?
1)A very expensive (for you) law suit for violation of the EULA
2)Each "unique" form can be sent to any amount of people but again, you can only collect the data 500 times. This also includes forms that are filled out, printed and mailed. That form can be used 500 times total.
3)Doesn't matter, it can be sent to all the people you want. See #2.
I'm really stuck on this 500 number. It seams very little.
It is and that is intentional. They used to now allow it at all. For larger usage, you would need to purchase a very expensive server side solution from Adobe. How expensive? Let's just ssay that the IRS decided it was too much to update from the latest version so you still have to use Reader 8 to fill out and save their forms.

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