RE: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker

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From: Stephen Arrants <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> He's also an ex-Claris guy, for what that's worth.  I mean 
> seriously--do you think he'd base a business decision solely on 
> the fact that he worked for Microsoft at one time? 

No. I don't think that's it. I find it ironic thought that Steve asked Adobe to 
help them by developing many of the application they had for Mac OS X (at least 
according to reports). They (Adobe) said thanks, but no thanks. 

Why these decisions were made are anybody's guess, but part of it is marketshare.
But, I do feel that's grossly overrated having worked at both Apple and ATI Technologies.
At ATI, there were a dozen Mac OS Engineers, that's it. Now granted the overall 
board design was done by a group of engineers who were classified as PC engineers,
however the PC group had close to 200 engineers vs. 12. Product for Product, the
Mac OS boards cost less to support, document for multiple languages (I did them 
all for the Mac, whereas we had 7 writers for the PC side). I simply have a hard
time knowing what I know from ATI about how much money the Mac side brought in vs.
the PC side to think that marketshare is all you have to look at when making these
decisions. 

> If they could make money selling Mac Framemaker, they'd still be 
> doing it. It is more likely that the development and marketing 
> costs for Mac Framemaker didn't justify itself.  

I don't think it was about not making money doing it. I think it was however how
much time and effort it would have taken to get FrameMaker out of Classic and into
a real Mac OS X application. Those of us using it on classic do so now because we
have no choice. However, if they still sold it, I would certainly be demanding a
Mac OS X version. Right now I'd settle for them simply selling the latest version
still. Instead you have find it used or on eBay from somebody who had old copies
laying around. 

Wayne

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