RE: Alternatives to Frame? (long)

[Mike Tatro <tatro@xxxxxxx>]

Dan-

Personally, I'd like to see more specialization and less "Swiss Army Knife"
software.

I see long document hardcopy publishing as a specialized discipline, as is
SGML support.

I'd be delighted to find a long document hardcopy publishing that did
everything I want it to really well and nothing more. Feature bloat is a
plague of epic proportions (IMHO).

Warmest Regards,
Michael L. Tatro
Documentation Manager
V-Systems, Inc.
tatro@vsi.com 


> At 08:56 AM 3/15/00 -0700, Steve Schwedland wrote:
> >At 03:57 AM 3/15/00 , Dan Emory wrote:
> >>they're now going to conclude
> >>that FrameMaker is in its death swoon, and they'd better 
> cut their losses
> >>and move on.
> >
> >That's easy to say, but move on to what?  I am not aware of 
> any other 
> >software out there that can do what FrameMaker does as well 
> as FrameMaker 
> >currently does it.  So what would we move on to?
> ==========================================================
> Obviously, the third-party developers can't move on 
> immediately, but they
> may begin to curtail any new development/upgrades until they 
> see which way
> the wind blows. The single-source long-document/structured 
> document market
> is now low-hanging fruit for any company that decides to move in on
> FrameMaker's turf. Maybe, as Dmitri Iounov suggest, Interleaf 
> will rise
> again like a Phoenix. Or maybe some outfit on the Linux front 
> will see the
> opportunity.
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