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From: geaclib!daveb@uunet.uu.net (David Collier-Brown)
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Subject: Re: SunWrite (etc) stepping on ISV toes
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Date: 21 Apr 89 14:18:28 GMT
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taylor@hplabs.hp.com (Dave Taylor):
> I was quite interested to see the announcement from Sun Microsystems at
> UniForum of their trio of SunWrite, SunDraw and SunPaint.  
> [...] 
> One thing I can't help thinking about, though, is that the third party
> companies like Interleaf and Frame must be pretty unhappy 

I'm not sure what the company's official position is likely to be, but I
will comment on the positioning of Interleaf and MacPaint...

Interleaf has a standard filter for reading MacPaint documents into
interleaf. One can often draw pictures better with picture-drawing tools
than a typesetting package.  Not unexpectedly, one can typeset better with
a typesetting package. 

That one can draw reasonable things (line drawings, simple isometric
"blueprints") with the package you use to typeset your 9-volume
maintenance manual is a usefull bonus.

 --dave (horses for courses, you see) c-b

DISCLAIMER: I work for Interleaf Canada.  I do not speak for them.
	    The president does that.
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 David Collier-Brown.  | yunexus!lethe!dave
 Interleaf Canada Inc. |
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 Mississauga, Ontario  |       --Joyce C-B