Re: FW: WWP Pro vs. Standard

[ezra <ezra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for replying personally, Mark.

I understand what you are saying in your response. The first question
that pops into my mind is: what about us Mac OS folks?

Regards,
Ezra


"B. Mark Hilton" wrote:
> 
> >From the market research we've done (we visited and personally interviewed
> about 100 FrameMaker(+SGML) customers and conducted a survey of about 4000
> FrameMaker(+SGML) users), the vast majority of customers have, or would like
> to have, the following workflow:
> 
> - one group owns the creation and maintenance of the HTML/XML templates
> - these templates are deployed company wide to the authors of content
> - the authors maintain a single source of content in FrameMaker and then
> publish out to PDF, HTML, SGML, XML, etc.
> - the authors use the deployed company standard templates
> 
> This is why FrameMaker and WebWorks Standard Edition was defined as it was.
> We mapped the features most important to the majority of our customers and
> left enough unique value in Quadralay's Professional version for them to
> maintain and grow their business.
> 
> Mark
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-framers@omsys.com [mailto:owner-framers@omsys.com]On Behalf
> > Of Dan Emory
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 11:04 AM
> > To: Free Framers
> > Subject: Re: FW: WWP Pro vs. Standard
> >
> >
> > At 01:17 PM 5/3/00 -0400, Brady, Paul wrote:
> > >Here's a summary of some of the replies I received on my original
> > >email...news is good! Looks like Frame 6 and WWP Standard will
> > be a winning
> > >combo!
> > >------------------Snip---------------------
> > >What I've gotten from Quadralay tells me you can use Pro to
> > create HTML or
> > >XML templates that will run in SE, but that if you want to
> > create templates
> > >or produce output for any of the online Help formats, you'll need
> > >Professional.
> > =================================================================
> > So the "winning combo!" for FM 6 means that if your group needs to produce
> > online help formats, you must shell out an additional $600 for an
> > upgrade to
> > WWP Pro on each FM platform. For the case where you only produce HTML or
> > XML, and you buy just one copy of WWP Pro for creating the
> > templates, you'll
> > be creating a work flow bottleneck. All template development,
> > including any
> > tweaks needed to fix conversion anomalies in individual files,
> > must be done
> > on a single platform, and then transferred to the platform that needs it.
> >
> > It sounds to me like it would be better, easier, cheaper, and more
> > productive to deinstall WWP SE, forget WWP altogether, and buy Jeremy's
> > Mif2Go for everyone.
> >
> > So, in the real world of document conversions and
> > "single-sourcing", FM6 and
> > WWP SE is not a "winning combo!" after all.
> >      ====================
> >      | Nullius in Verba |
> >      ====================
> > Dan Emory, Dan Emory & Associates
> > FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing
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