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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re:  Frame (1.0) spaces
Summary: How marketing decisions can ruin a fine product's sales
Message-ID: <679@wet.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 00:47:14 GMT
References: <3592@frame.UUCP>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <3592@frame.UUCP> yyang@frame.com (Yeong Yang) writes:
>The FrameMaker app in 1.0 release is a very decent beta demo copy and has many
>powerful features.  Though one minor (:-)) feature -- saving will be 
>disabled on Oct 17, 1989.

Too bad.  The chances we'll have 1.0 available for general use
before then are about zero.  Without a full demo, we'll be less
inclined to get addicted to it, and thus less likely to
site-license it for our organization of 35,000 people.  We're
totally scrupulous about licensing software, and this is audited
and verified, and we generally commit to software decisions for
no less than five years.  Five years guaranteed revenue.  Five
years of convincing everyone that comes through to demand YOUR
product wherever they go when they leave.  Five years of word-of-
mouth advertising--the best kind--the kind you just can't buy.

>The actual FrameMaker product will be on sale at BusinessLand by then.

According to the documentation, educational institutions deal with
Frame directly, not B-Land.  That's ok, you don't need our money,
or us persuading our 10-times-the-size parent University to adopt
your product statewide.  Too bad, it looked kinda neat.

Now, if there were some license number that extended the full
functionality to say, Dec. 31, you might get a full audition
rather than a listing under "reclaimable disk space."

					-=EPS=- / SFSU
standard disclaimer -- just tellin' it like it is