Re: FrameMaker's Future

[Bill Briggs <web@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:58 PM +0000 1/14/05, Paul Findon wrote:
> On 13 Jan 2005, at 21:41, Art Campbell wrote:
>
> > "The India team has complete ownership for the PageMaker and
> > FrameMaker products and hence handles all phases of the new feature
> > releases starting from conceptualizing, designing, delivering and
> > testing for all current and subsequent releases.
>
> Interesting! I guess that confirms the FrameMakers-gone-to-India 
> stories. I guess they mean "full responsibility" and not "complete 
> ownership."
>
> Here in the U.K., major banks, insurance companies, etc., say that 
> Indian wages are one-twelfth that of the U.K. I don't know how that 
> would apply to a U.S. software company in India, but it could be 
> very, very cheap for Adobe India to port FrameMaker to Mac OS X. And 
> I'm sure they'd do an excellent job. If only there was the will.

 My sense of it after a decade of observation is that there's little 
interest in Frame within Adobe, and they maintain it grudgingly, even 
on Windoze. And I'll bet that now that the man who initiated the 
purchase of Frame is gone from the helm, they'll kill it outright at 
the first opportunity. It's a pity. For so many of us it's our main 
workhorse application.


"The trade deficit is at a record $60 billion. It is so bad, Mexicans 
are going to India to find decent American jobs."
                                                      - Jay Leno

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