RE: FW: WWP Pro vs. Standard

["B. Mark Hilton" <mhilton@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From the market research we've done (we visited and personally interviewed
about 100 FrameMaker(+SGML) customers and conducted a survey of about 4000
FrameMaker(+SGML) users), the vast majority of customers have, or would like
to have, the following workflow:

- one group owns the creation and maintenance of the HTML/XML templates
- these templates are deployed company wide to the authors of content
- the authors maintain a single source of content in FrameMaker and then
publish out to PDF, HTML, SGML, XML, etc.
- the authors use the deployed company standard templates

This is why FrameMaker and WebWorks Standard Edition was defined as it was.
We mapped the features most important to the majority of our customers and
left enough unique value in Quadralay's Professional version for them to
maintain and grow their business.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-framers@omsys.com [mailto:owner-framers@omsys.com]On Behalf
> Of Dan Emory
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 11:04 AM
> To: Free Framers
> Subject: Re: FW: WWP Pro vs. Standard
>
>
> At 01:17 PM 5/3/00 -0400, Brady, Paul wrote:
> >Here's a summary of some of the replies I received on my original
> >email...news is good! Looks like Frame 6 and WWP Standard will
> be a winning
> >combo!
> >------------------Snip---------------------
> >What I've gotten from Quadralay tells me you can use Pro to
> create HTML or
> >XML templates that will run in SE, but that if you want to
> create templates
> >or produce output for any of the online Help formats, you'll need
> >Professional.
> =================================================================
> So the "winning combo!" for FM 6 means that if your group needs to produce
> online help formats, you must shell out an additional $600 for an
> upgrade to
> WWP Pro on each FM platform. For the case where you only produce HTML or
> XML, and you buy just one copy of WWP Pro for creating the
> templates, you'll
> be creating a work flow bottleneck. All template development,
> including any
> tweaks needed to fix conversion anomalies in individual files,
> must be done
> on a single platform, and then transferred to the platform that needs it.
>
> It sounds to me like it would be better, easier, cheaper, and more
> productive to deinstall WWP SE, forget WWP altogether, and buy Jeremy's
> Mif2Go for everyone.
>
> So, in the real world of document conversions and
> "single-sourcing", FM6 and
> WWP SE is not a "winning combo!" after all.
>      ====================
>      | Nullius in Verba |
>      ====================
> Dan Emory, Dan Emory & Associates
> FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing
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