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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: All Commercial Software Developers or Companies (pls read)
Message-ID: <43742@cup.portal.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 09:45:37 GMT
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< Spaudit does not look at files to see what made them and then determine that

I think you should reconsider on this point.  It could be very useful
to know what applications are creating documents.  Remember, many
applications can read the documents of their competitors, so you can
get situations where the software is mismatched to the needs of the
company.  Person A might make a document and give it to person B, who
uses a different application to read it.  We then end up with person B
having documents not produced by any application on B's machine.

A company might want to track this to find out what applications are
actually used for producing new documents.  For example, if 10% of the
staff writes documents, and they use MacWrite, and the other 90% only
reads them, but they use Word, then the company is wasting a lot of money
on the more expensive Word for features that they don't need.  A report
on document creators could alert them to this, allowing them to make
future purchasing decisions more wisely.

< If the company policy is to use word then the office heretic should
< use word or find other employment. Again this has nothing to do with Spaudit.

I use FullWrite Professional and then save the document in a form that
Word can read.  This way I get to use the software I prefer, but the
rest of the company gets documents in the form that they want.

						Tim Smith