Reader Extensions vs. Adobe Acrobat 8

As you are probably aware, one of the best features of Reader Extensions is to allow people with Adobe Reader to save their form data locally.
Now, Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional has enabled the same feature.
So my question is... what's the benefit of owning Reader Extensions?

[email protected] wrote:
> How can we activate Reader Extensions. It is installed on our server. But giving an error about credentials when logged in. Do we have to provide a credential file before installing ?
>
> Another question, it will cost too much because you have to pay for each document opened with RE. Think of a workflow project that will be used inside a company having lots of office employees. The cost will be too high. Does it become cheaper to buy an adobe 8.0 professional license for every person which will not be very cheap also.
>
> In this case, may be we shouldn't choose to work with adobe.
>
> What is your advise ?
There are different licensing models. There is a per-form license and a per-user license. The
per-form license makes sense where you have a small number of forms being used by a large (or
unlimited) number of users. The per-user license makes sense where you have a large number of forms
and a pre-determined number of users. In your case, you should find out about the per-user licensing.
Justin Klei
Cardinal Solutions Group
www.cardinalsolutions.com

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