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Re: FrameMaker's Future



At 10:58 PM +0000 1/14/05, Paul Findon wrote:
On 13 Jan 2005, at 21:41, Art Campbell wrote:

"The India team has complete ownership for the PageMaker and
FrameMaker products and hence handles all phases of the new feature
releases starting from conceptualizing, designing, delivering and
testing for all current and subsequent releases.

Interesting! I guess that confirms the FrameMakers-gone-to-India stories. I guess they mean "full responsibility" and not "complete ownership."


Here in the U.K., major banks, insurance companies, etc., say that Indian wages are one-twelfth that of the U.K. I don't know how that would apply to a U.S. software company in India, but it could be very, very cheap for Adobe India to port FrameMaker to Mac OS X. And I'm sure they'd do an excellent job. If only there was the will.

My sense of it after a decade of observation is that there's little interest in Frame within Adobe, and they maintain it grudgingly, even on Windoze. And I'll bet that now that the man who initiated the purchase of Frame is gone from the helm, they'll kill it outright at the first opportunity. It's a pity. For so many of us it's our main workhorse application.



"The trade deficit is at a record $60 billion. It is so bad, Mexicans are going to India to find decent American jobs."
- Jay Leno


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