Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?

[rebecca officer]

The New Zealand Tech Comms Association does an annual salary and tools
survey. It's a self-selected sample so it's probably biased towards
experienced career writers, but in 2011, about 15% of respondents used
Framemaker, from about 7% of companies. 
 
Flare had a few fewer users, so it's not taking over here. Other than
Word, Author-It was the most popular tool. It's a local product so has a
strong following here. 
 
Frame may be coughing a bit but it doesn't seem to be dead!
 
Don't know about Frame 11 being a keeper. We're still using Frame 10
for production, but I've just finished a good solid bash at using TCS4
to convert a 3000 page book to HTML. Frame 11 didn't crash consistently
like Frame 10 but it still crashed a few times. 
 
Cheers
Rebecca

>>> Keith Soltys <keith.soltys at tmx.com> 21/12/12 08:33 >>>
The number of FrameMaker users was discussed on the FrameMaker History
page some time ago:

http://daube.ch/docu/fmhist00.html

It seems that somewhere upwards of 500,000 would be a reasonable
guess.

Regards
Keith

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 4:14 AM
> To: Rob Shell; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper?
>
> As a user of FrameMaker to produce several dozen published textbooks,
I might
> perhaps be qualified to comment.
>
> Although I have bought a FrameMaker 10 license to keep on the upgrade
path, I
> am still using FrameMaker 7 on Mac simply because it does everything
I need it
> to, predictably and well, including structured. This situation will
pertain until I
> can no longer support FrameMaker 7 Mac.
>
> I suspect I am not alone in this.
>
> As for numbers of seats, I was told anecdotally a number of years
back by an
> Adobe employee that it was the volume license users such as Boeing
that kept
> the product going.
>
> --
> Steve
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