RE: FrameMaker's Future

["Carol J. Elkins" <celkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From Adobe's 2003 Annual Report at 
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/2002_ar.pdf:

"Finally, we experienced a 29% year-over-year decline in type and technical 
publishing products, which
includes our Adobe FrameMaker product, due to overall economic weakness in 
the geographic markets in which
these products are used."

Most companies are not going to support products with that kind of loss in 
revenue for very long. Perhaps if our economy picks up, Adobe's attitude 
will improve, too. <Dream on, Carol>

You know, if faced with a choice between no FrameMaker and old FrameMaker, 
I'd take the old any day. Even without upgrades and new product features, 
Frame stands alone in its ability to meet my publishing needs. I know that 
it would be a bad business decision to sell FrameMaker to another company 
because that would create competition for whichever of its products Adobe 
thinks we're going to migrate to. But if Adobe decided to do nothing more 
than keep the product compatible with the next few iterations of MSWindows, 
I'd be ecstatic.

Carol

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