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Subject: Re: Frame Maker
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Date: 29 Jan 88 18:48:13 GMT
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This is a response to Barry Lyden's recent comments regarding 
Frame Maker:
 
First, and most importantly, Barry says:
        My evaluation is pushing two years old....
 
The first production version of Frame Maker shipped less than 1 year ago.
We did allow access to a *prototype* before that. We called it
version .6. Barry must have been evaluating that version.
 
I think Barry's opinions about Frame Maker are at best irrelevant given
the fact that they are based on the (very old) prototype. We are currently
shipping version 1.11. It is significantly faster and much more powerful/ 
featureful than the version used by Barry. 
 
The main misleading part of Barry's comments is:
        [Frame Maker] is the right tool for small volume, office-type 
        publishing on the Sun. Large volume publishing? Not unless   
        they did a major revision to their software. 
 
Hundreds of Frame Maker sites use Frame to produce thousands of pages
of documentation per month.
 
Over 2000 customers have purchased full licenses for Frame Maker to date.
For the last 9 months, 30 to 50% of license sales have been additional
licenses at the same site, indicating a very high degree of customer
satisfaction.
 
I try very hard to avoid anything like advertising in this forum. But
I think that Barry's comments are sufficiently misleading that they
require some response.

David Murray
VP Engineering
Frame Technology Corp.
"The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily
 reflect the opinions of my employer. (In this case, I think
 my employer would agree.)"
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