Upgrading from Acrobat 07 to 09 Question

[RKelly]

Hello,



I work for a company that is currently installing an upgraded version of acrobat. There is a current version of Acrobat (07) and the company bought the upgrade to 09 version. The question is, do I need to uninstall or de-activate the 07 version before installing the 09 version, or can I install 09 and still have 07 active?



The reason I ask is the current version of 07 is on a computer that willl no longer be used, instead the user will be using Acrobat 09 on a virtual machine, in other words I'm installing the 09 on a different computer than 07.



Any help is appreciated, thank you !

[rallynavvie]

It depends on your licensing agreement with Adobe. As long as all copies are being used for company work (as in not taking the old version for personal use) you are probably OK, but then there are some ELAs that require all end users to upgrade to the latest licensed version for support reasons. The nice thing is most enterprise licenses aren't really "upgrade" versions, meaning that the installer probably isn't going to be looking for a previous version on the PC you're installing it to.

[drjtech]

Your company's IT Security folks will probably want Acrobat 7 uninstalled since it is no longer supported by security patches.

-drjtech

[RKelly]

Thanks for your reply. Hey rally you've been nice enough to respond to a couple of my posts, do you work for VMware?

[rallynavvie]

Hey rally you've been nice enough to respond to a couple of my posts, do you work for VMware?

I do not. I just use a lot of their products between work and home.

[RKelly]

drjtech,

I think the reason why is we are upgrading from xp to vista and anything below acrobat 8.1 I believe is not vista compatible.