Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)Overall: Contribute (3/5), Contribute Publishing Server (3/5)
Capabilities: Contribute (3/5), Contribute Publishing Server (3/5)
Support: 0
Pirce: 3/5
Contribute is a good product. Unfortunately, the Publishing Server is no longer supported by Macromedia or Adobe, and none of their sales reps know anything about the product. Their support department will charge you for a support incident, only to tell you afterwards they don't know who to go to for support on the product.
For easy site editing, and if you don't need the publishing server component, which was nice while it lasted, then Contribute is fine. It supports rolling back to previous versions and is easy enough to use.
However, the Contribute's real reason d'etre was for enterprise document editing with control over what users could edit, the ability to rollback all the user changes, and control who has access to what, all controlled by the Contribute Publishing Server (a.k.a. CPS).
Do NOT download the Trial version of CPS. You can't get a license out of Adobe for it, and Adobe couldn't find the media (the CD, or an installer for the full, non-trial version) when we tried to get it.
Overall, I liked Contribute, until the 30 day trial ran out and I found out, after almost $1,000 was spent on licenses, that Adobe still sells it but doesn't support it. The third-party sales rep apologized, complained to Adobe that they sell an expensive product they don't support, and refunded the money.
Feel free to try the trial of Contribute, but stay away from the publishing server. If you like it, buy it, but don't expect any support from Adobe. Apparently this is a product that was lost somewhere in the transition of Adobe's Macromedia takeover.
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