Frame Light, what's the potential market?

[Alan T Litchfield]

On 23/02/2011, at 11:00 AM, Milan Davidović wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Dr Rick Smith  
> <rick at cryptosmith.com> wrote:
>> I admit I'm astonished that any software product manager could ask  
>> about the market for a "Light" version of their product.
>>
>> I thought the industry had already proven - time and again - that  
>> such things never thrive.
>
> Do you consider Adobe's "Elements" versions as "light" (e.g. Photoshop
> Elements)? I have no sales figures for them, but my impression is that
> they do OK.


These target a different kind of market. They are consumer, non- 
professionally oriented and has little to do with what FrameMaker  
does. You would be unlikely to see a home-based Elements user opening  
Frame Lite to edit something, for example.

Alan

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