Re: Now is the time of all good people to come to the aid of their to ols

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:27 PM 12/22/99 -0800, Svee, Eric wrote:
>"Now is the time of all good people to come to the aid of their tools"
>
>Having worked at Adobe for a few years, I have at least a cursory
>understanding of how their corporate machine works. One thing that they are
>notorious for is shortsighted planning (ie. they just laid off almost their
>entire TS and CS staff in favor of low-paid outsourcers . . .).  They are
>the fat and happy cat in the printing and design world and, while they are a
>bit more magnanimous and polite than Microsoft, they have many of the same
>bloated idiosyncracies and habits.   Great products and people but a
>terminally stupid company--just the opposite of Microsoft.
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Your assessment confirms my own conclusions derived from experience with
Adobe as a VAR.
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>
>Framers must let Adobe know their aspiration and affection for FrameMaker,
>continuously and vociferously. We must look at examples such as the one I
>provided and make them known to Adobe.   Contrary to Mr. Warnock's
>counter-claims, Adobe could just as easily decide to eliminate FrameMaker
>development altogether.  Any company that has as random a business plan and
>as little focus as Adobe does should not simply be taken at their word, but
>must continually be prodded into proving their true aspirations.  Only then
>can those of us that depend on their tools sleep a bit easier at night.
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Exactly right!
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Dan Emory, Dan Emory & Associates
FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing
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