[Framers] Bootcamp vs. Parallels or VM, WAS: FrameMaker and Salesforce

John Sgammato john.sgammato at actifio.com
Wed Mar 9 13:17:43 PST 2016 

Hi Pat,
I got my MacBook Pro in November 2012.
First I asked for a Windows machine. That was rejected.
Then I tried VirtualBox, and that did not work well for a number of reasons
that I no longer recall.
(I had plenty of support from well-meaning engineers.)
Then one of those well-meaning engineers took my Mac home over the weekend
and when I got it back it was great. He had configured Bootcamp to use
virtually all the Mac resources and since then it has been a Windows
machine, first Win7 and now Win10 with TCS 2015.
I was just talking to our IT guy. I am due for an upgrade, but I told him
that I don't want it because my system ain't broke, so please don't fix it.
About 21 months ago, we added two more writers. They got Macs, but set up
Parallels. Parallels was a resource hog and their systems never ran as well
as my older Bootcamp one. In December, they switched to Bootcamp, with
happy results.
I recommend Bootcamp over Parallels or VirtualBox for our kind of work.


On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Pat Christenson <
Pat.Christenson at morningstar.com> wrote:

> Hi, John -
>
> I've run FrameMaker under both Parallels and VMware Fusion but have only
> used in on a Windows platform for the last several years. I may soon be in
> a position to use a Mac again. I'm curious about your preference for
> Bootcamp (which I've never used). I would also love to hear from other
> Framers on this topic.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pat Christenson
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> John Sgammato wrote:
>
> In other news, we are also a Mac house. Over three years of
> trial-and-error, we have determined that our best setup is Bootcamp on the
> Mac, not Parallels and not VirtualMachine.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Robyn Chittister <rchittister at vlocity.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Does anyone use FrameMaker and then integrate that documentation with
> > Salesforce?
> >
> > I'm 1 of 1-1/2 technical writers at a start up that creates cloud apps
> > for Salesforce. We are currently using Salesforce Knowledge to create
> > and deliver our documentation. Knowledge is possibly the worst
> > documentation tool I have ever used. We've been looking at various
> > single-sourcing solutions, and we're down to MadCap Flare and FrameMaker.
> >
> > I'm a FrameMaker user from way back - I started with FM+SGML 5.5 in
> > 1999. I developed templates and tools for FM+SGML and FM+XML from
> > 1999-2005. I've used FM 12 in an unstructured environment, and am
> > happy to see the improvements. I'm not sure how many improvements
> > there have been in the structured environment, however. I've tried to
> > contact Adobe, and have gotten a human being to say he'll give my
> > questions to a solutions specialist to answer. Knowing Adobe, I'm not
> going to hold my breath.
> >
> > My questions are:
> >
> >    - Is anyone here writing doc for Salesforce or Salesforce apps? If so,
> >    what tools do you use?
> >    - Is there a good comparison of the most recent versions of Flare v.
> FM?
> >    The only ones I've been able to find are from several years ago.
> >    - Is anyone here using FM+XML (either v12 or 2015) who could answer
> some
> >    specific questions I have about it?
> >
> >
> > We're a Mac house, so I can't just download the trial versions. We
> > understand that we will need to get me set up with a VM and Windows to
> > use the software we choose.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
> >
> > ~Robyn
> >
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> >
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> >
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