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[albatroz]

During the last 2 years I have been combining the web hosting business with renting/consulting streaming for streaming conferences online.

Sometimes I did it with Windows Media services, but some others with a product called Convoq (similar to Webex, but cheaper).

Now I am looking for a better product that could be also multifunctional. In my research I found Picturetalk, looks good, but I haven't fully tested it yet, so as I didn't found too much information in the Net I came here for comments....

If you want to look for more information look at
http://www.picturetalk.com/home/

[Vex76]

I have never heard of this one before but visited the site you linked to. Have you noticed you could have a trial version there? If not yet, check it out - that might help you a lot to form an opinion before buying.

[utropicmedia-karl]

Adobe Breeze is the best when it comes to cross-platform. You can get server licenses around 7000$ and the end-user licensing is reasonable.

[tickedon]

https://www.gotomeeting.com
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnect/
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/

Take your pick Adobe Connect is quite good in my opinion, a nice interface, nice features, and a nice price.

[Vex76]

Being not a professional in the webconferencing sphere, from what I read and tried in tickedon links, Adobe Connect seems to be the "winner" so far.

Note: Adobe Breeze = the old name for Adobe Connect Professional

[jjkd]

Note that Adobe Connect Professional (aka: Breeze Meeting) does have problems with VoIP in agressive security environments, such as enterprise-level proxy server arrays, or in any equivalent situation when the jitter is high and you are tunneling over 80/443 because any other usable ports are blocked. Both WebEx and Interwise do better in such environments.

Hopefully they will address this in a future release, as otherwise the product seems very nice. Of course, if you can guarantee no need to worry about proxy servers, or can open ports, or aren't going to use VoIP, then this is not much of an issue. In our case, we can't/don't control the networking our participants would use, do use VoIP and so have to worry about it.

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Joe Kyle
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[KevlerS]

In terms of web-conferencing market share, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Cisco Webex are the leaders. If you have access to Gartner reports, check out their web conferencing magic quadrant, which will give you good insight into the pros/cons of all the offerings out there.

[crazyfish]

I've had some experience with www.wiredred.com it's pretty decent software.

[mummy]

have you seen this one? - http://www.webconference.com/