RE: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker

[Bill Briggs <web@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 8:32 AM -0500 7/19/05, waynefb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> It's more than just "word is"... Apple states in developer documentation:
>
> "What Can Be Translated?
> Rosetta is designed to translate currently 
> shipping applications that run on a PowerPC with 
> a G3 processor and that are built for Mac OS X. 
> That includes CFM as well as MachO PowerPC 
> applications.
>
> Rosetta does not run the following:
>
> Applications built for any version of the Mac OS 
> earlier than Mac OS X ?that means Mac OS 9, Mac 
> OS 8, Mac OS 7, and so forth
> The Classic environment

 There we go. So the funeral date for FrameMaker 
on Mac is dangling out there. Time to start 
collecting the last generation of Macs that boot 
OS 9 natively.


> I don't hold much hope for Adobe porting 
> FrameMaker (although it should be easier), and 
> although I have multiple computers running both 
> Windows and Mac OS X, I rarely turn on the 
> Windows computers and still use FrameMaker on 
> the Mac as much as possible. But Adobe's 
> decision wasn't soley about Framemamker, if you 
> look at why Apple has the "i-apps" (iMovie, 
> iDVD, etc.), you'll see Adobe choose to abandon 
> the Apple platform (this is covered in many 
> older news stories, and confirmed by Steve 
> Jobs). I keep wondering what fate Adobe has in 
> store for many of the Macromedia products once 
> the transition is complete. Freehand, is 
> probably toast (on both platforms), and I expect 
> Adobe to continue trimming their offerings to 
> the Mac community. Of course the irony in all 
> this mess, is they continue to wonder why the 
> Mac community won't buy their limited offerings.

 No kidding. Why would you buy it if the thing 
may not exist in a year or two. Having a CEO who 
is an ex-MS guy may have something to do with it.


> I just really wish there was a good replacement 
> for what FrameMaker does, because once the move 
> to Intel chips happens next year, it will only 
> be a matter of time before I have to replace my 
> computers and then Framemaker is toast as well 
> (at least in my book).

 It'll be a sad day.

 - web


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