FM on Mac's UNIX: (WAS Adobe FrameMaker End-of-Life for Macintosh Platform)

[Peter Gold <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The simplest way to explain the problem here is to look at history, and 
what's different now.

In the days when FrameMaker was introduced on UNIX, each of the many UNIX 
flavors differed so much, that application developers, like Frame 
Technology, were paid to bring their applications to a company's preferred 
UNIX flavor. Frame, and other companies, didn't just make money from the 
sale of seats, they made money from porting their applications.

Now, the same problem of customizing applications for UNIX flavors remains, 
but application developers have to pay for their own development costs. I 
don't know if other commercial UNIX programs can "just run" under the UNIX 
in Mac OS X, but it's been mentioned many times on this and related FM 
forums that FM can't just be dropped in and just run "fine."

It's probably smarter, cheaper, and faster, to buy a Windows PC for your 
FM, than to invest in bashing UNIX FM into shape for your Mac's UNIX. FM 
UNIX shareable licenses cost about the same as a FM Windows license plus a 
PC that can run it well.

My 2c.


Regards,

Peter Gold
Adobe Certified Expert: FrameMaker, Acrobat, InDesign
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