Adobe’s Acrobat 7 gets hip to document collaboration

The advent of social software shook the very foundations of the
computer as box model, in which applications were designed to optimize the experience of a single user as if operating in a self-contained environment. It's almost as if,
overwhelmed by the technical possibilities of what a single machine could be made to do, developers forgot that the actual nature of work is often far more gregarious, and that almost no project is built in isolation.

The latest version of Acrobat 7.0 from Adobe reflects this paradigm shift in application development. Instead of single users creating single documents, the Acrobat software suite is designed to promote workgroup collaboration on documents and projects. Documents can be assembled from multiple sources, forms are made to be more intelligent,  and PDF 'readers' can quickly become PDF 'authors' by making comments directly in the documents themselves. This is an important conceptual shift, as it treats a PDF as a truly dynamic document that is 'authored' by a group of individuals over time – more like a
blog or a wiki than a static file.

Acrobat 7 will be available in Professional and Standard editions for an expected retail price of $449 and $299,
respectively. Upgrade pricing for users of earlier versions of Acrobat is estimated at $159 Professional, $99 Standard.
Looking forward to getting my hands on it!