Frame's future
Dov Isaacs
isaacs at adobe.com
Sun Feb 25 14:07:37 PST 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Findon
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 1:26 PM
> To: Free Framers List; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Cc: Chuck Hastings
> Subject: Re: Frame's future
>
> On 21 Feb 2007, at 17:28, Dov Isaacs wrote:
>
> > There is no reason for me to doubt the veracity
> > of your claim vis-a-vis the order of appearance
> > of FrameMaker on various platforms. However, you or
> > I like it or not, rational business decisions are
> > made on the basis of current market conditions, not
>
> "Rational business decisions"?
>
> Now that is a new one for my oxymoron collection.
>
> Trouble is, in this case Adobe was partly responsible for the market
> conditions.
>
> Sometimes companies have to build a market. Sometimes they decide
> simply not to bother.
>
> Paul
It is indeed possible for Adobe to have built a market for
FrameMaker on the Macintosh ... if we gave away a Mac with
each copy of FrameMaker Macintosh that was licensed. :-)
Sorry, Paul, the numbers just weren't there to support such
an investment.
- Dov
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