Best desktop video tools

Adobe Connect and Cisco WebEx are all-around winners in test of Web-based conferencing products

By David Strom, Network World | Software, Adobe Connect, Cisco

Adobe Connect

Adobe Connect costs $55 a month per host (meeting leader.) It supports a client browser; Windows, Mac or Linux desktops; iOS, BlackBerry and Android mobile clients. Adobe Connect’s sweet spot is large-scale corporate meetings or Webinars that call for recording and archiving the content.

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