RE: FrameMaker's Future

[Larry Kollar <Larry.Kollar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> "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..."

I wonder how much of that is economic weakness and how much is due to a
fundamental shift away from publishing on paper. Frame (and Word, for that
matter) is a very paper-centric program that has had some electronic
publishing features bolted on over the years. It's really a tribute to
Frame's versatility that it has remained as relevant as it has, despite a
nearly nonexistent mindshare inside Adobe, for as long as it has.

But now we're in a Catch-22: Frame isn't going to return to its glory days
without a fundamental makeover that includes a more media-neutral look &
feel, and Adobe isn't going to devote large resources to Frame without a
surge in sales.

--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc


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