Seybold Report, Vol.4, No.22, February 23,2005

"A few weeks ago, Adobe quietly announced that it is discontinuing its eBook server software, Content Server, which contains the DRM encryption functionality for PDF eBooks. Adobe no longer sells the product and will discontinue technical support for it in 2006..."

"Adobe’s abandonment of eBook technology leaves the technology in the hands of smaller vendors: eReader and MobiPocket, both of which produce eBook technology for handheld devices, and independent vendors of DRM for PDF files, such as Aries Systems and FileOpen — both also very small outfits..."

Currently FileOpen users are already (March 2005) experiencing problems as the new Acrobat version 7 is not compatible with distributed versions of FileOpen leading to 116 error and AcroRd32 errors.