Adobe pricing policies (was: FrameMaker 12 released)

[Maxwell Hoffmann]

Robert, 

For another viewpoint, Adobe was just named in the top 100 companies to work for by Fortune. Our 2013 revenues considerably exceeded projections. So "somebody" out there is happy with Adobe.  ;-)



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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 10:57 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Adobe pricing policies (was: FrameMaker 12 released)

It may seem like contempt, but I think they're just clueless.

They have a lot of products that have been mature for a long time, so they have little to offer users to justify upgrading.

They have a lot of employees with stale skill sets and it's not a company where someone with top skills would want to work. I overheard a conversation in a restaurant in which an Adobe employee was talking about how it was a great place to be while she figured out what to do next in her career because they were paying her $150K and she didn't really have to do anything.

Maybe they're not even clueless. In 2013, per SEC filings, Adobe insiders sold 9 million shares and bought 5,000.

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:38 AM, D L Reynolds <reynolds at semicool.com> wrote:
> Adobe now seems contemptuous of its users. It's all about what works for them, users be damned. Very disappointing.
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