RE: FrameMaker's Future

["Aiken, Jason" <jason.aiken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good points.

FYI: Arbortext has reported 13 consecutive quarters with "record-breaking" growth.

Arbortext's October 2004 press release
http://www.arbortext.com/news/release100604.htm

Is this a trend?

Regards,
Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> Of Larry Kollar
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:25 AM
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> Subject: RE: FrameMaker's Future
> 
> 
> > "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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