Frame Light, what's the potential market?

[Rick Quatro]

One more thing regarding this: I highly doubt that Adobe is going to do this
anyway. The next best thing would be a light-weight, inexpensive editor,
either in a browser or stand-alone, that would work with a schema to enforce
standards. I suppose I am thinking of an XML editor, so maybe this already
exists. Any suggestions, recommendations, or further discussion, would be
welcome. Thank you very much.

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-659-8267

rick at frameexpert.com

 

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Davey
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:57 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Frame Light, what's the potential market?

 

Cross posted to dita-frameusers, so ignore as needed ...

 

I had an interesting discussion with the Frame Product Manager a few days
ago at
the London launch event for TCS3.  It seems there is the motivation to
develop a
business case for 'Frame Light' which could be used by SMEs to create and
review
content, but little else.
 
I work in an environment where I am the only Frame user (experimenting with
10
at the moment) in an organisation with over 100 SMEs producing content in
Word.
Most do their own thing, or come to me to 'fix' or standardise stuff once it
is
collected together.
 
So, I would want 'Frame Light' to allow content creation in structured or
unstructured format (including DITA one day), but that requires the content
provider to use only the pre-determined paragraph formats and a few text
styles
(emphasis, bold, sub- and superscript); and insert images by reference.  I
can
get around a need to define conditional text by using different paragraph
format
names.  All this in templates that can only be developed or altered by full
license holders.
 
To support the development of a business case can you post what (other)
functionality you would want Frame Light to have, how many licenses you
would
(ideally) want in your organisation, how many full Frame licenses you
currently
have (for comparison purposes), how you would want FL delivered (local
install,
web-based, floating licenses), and what you would want/need to pay for it to
get
it accepted as an alternative to Whatever word processing your SMEs
currently
use?
 
Creating more disciplined (structured), reusable, content which can be
output
with a similar look and feel, and doesn't reinvent a wheel each time an SME
puts
fingers to keyboard, is a concept which has almost reached its time in my
organisation. Others may be close, or even ahead, so there must be demand
for
this.  Please let me know.
 
Best regards,
Ant 


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