Re: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker

[Abbas Zaidi <abuzz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have done doc development for Apple for a year, and
the reasoning I heard from the old timers was a bit
less financial.

I understood that a big part of the reasoning was
Apple's decision to enter the PDF generation market,
which takes Adobe away from being the only player in
the field.  Adobe is simply punishing Apple by taking
away (reworking a relatively underperforming product,
i.e.,) Frame from Apple's PDF-native platform (OSX). 
Would you support a company that, instead of being
greatful for your continued loyalty, decides to
emulate (and thus infringe upon) your very bread and
butter?  Made sense to me when I heard it..

It would augur well for Adobe if they came back to the
MacTel platform, and made the skip of OSX only a PPC
generation skip. That says loads about foresight in
picking the right technology to skip.. just by virtue
of it having been such a well-timed and astute move..

Abbas
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--- Allen <soundbyte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> waynefb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> I'm finding that many of the jobs I'm interviewing
> for want Word. I'm 
> starting a short term contract at (big Internet
> company) and they want 
> it all in Word. I mentioned the instability of the
> template in Word and 
> the response was, "Yeah, but we need it in Word so
> it can be used in 
> foreign countries."  I guess they never heard of
> RTF.
> 
> But if FrameMaker is toast, what is everyone looking
> toward? None of the 
> XML based stuff seems really usable. Is it back to
> LaTex?
> 
> Allen
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