Fwd: FrameMaker 5.5.6 beta on Linux

[Lee Richardson <lhr@xxxxxxxxx>]

The following email is on its way to all registered users of the FM 5.5.6 Linux beta. We were unable to make a good business case for continued FM development on the platform. My regrets to anyone who was waiting for FM6 or the FDK.

...Lee


: Lee Richardson       : mailto:lhr@adobe.com : +1 408.536.6412     :
: Engr Mgr, FrameMaker : Adobe Systems, Inc   : +1 408.537.5113 fax :


At 7:42 PM -0800 11/27/00, FM Linux Admin wrote:
>Thank you for participating in the FrameMaker 5.5.6 on Linux beta
>program. The beta program has now completed, and the beta software is
>no longer available for download. The beta licenses will expire on 31
>December 2000, and you will be unable to use the product after that
>date.
>
>The FrameMaker product team appreciates your feedback and
>participation in Adobe's investigations into the Linux market for
>FrameMaker. From this study, Adobe has determined that it will not,
>at this time, release a commercial version of FrameMaker or
>FrameMaker+SGML on the Linux platform. Of course FrameMaker 6.0 and
>FrameMaker+SGML 6.0 software continues to be available for the
>Windows, Mac and UNIX platforms.
>
>If you have documents created with the FrameMaker 5.5.6 beta on Linux
>which you wish to continue to use, you have two choices. Documents
>created with the FrameMaker 5.5.6 Beta on Linux software may be
>opened with FrameMaker 5.5.6 or 6.0, or FrameMaker+SGML 5.5.6 or 6.0,
>on a Windows, Mac or UNIX platform. Alternatively you should save any
>documents created with the software to text before 31 December 2000,
>for that content to be accessible to other applications after 31
>December 2000.
>
>Comments on the FrameMaker 5.5.6 on Linux beta program can be sent to:
>
>   fmlinux@adobe.com
>
>Thank you again for participation in this program.
>
>Best Regards,
>The FrameMaker Product Team
>Adobe Systems Incorporated
>
>
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