;- )
I think we all have been mislead by sales guys occasionally.
If you're making initial startup decisions for your company or
department though, you increase your risk substantially if you go
exclusively with any new product or technology.
Nobody ever got fired for recommending Microsoft, Sun, or IBM. Or Frame.
Bottom line is: Be conservative with your production system; go with
proven performers. Feel free to experiment, of course -- I'm sure
many people on the list have already signed up for Blaze
alpha/betas/trials. Including Adobe employees. But I don't think
anyone's planning to make it their production system until they've
beaten on it for months or years. It's a new product from a relatively
new company, and many people don't have great product memories from
the Madcap principal's last company, RoboHelp.
Art
On 8/17/06, AJ Coots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hardly a conviction...simply what the sales staff told me.
I'm an babe-in-the-woods about all this. Just hoping for some guidance
from the more experienced of you out there in cyber space.
It looks like Flare is not very well known, even by it's own sales
staff!
A.J. Coots
Documentation Specialist
Portland, Oregon 97224-7756
Direct: 503 597 0765
Internal Ext. #515
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Art Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:18 PM
To: AJ Coots
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Framemaker vs. Flare
AJ, perhaps you'd better tell Madcap about your conviction that Flare
is their FM killer; they seem to have the wrong info on their www
site....
According to their www site, Flare is their help authoring tool. Help.
Not books, XML, DITA. Just help. FM is a much more full-featured
authoring environment that isn't designed just for help.
And concerning Blaze:
"MadCap Blaze(tm) - Your Frame Alternative
Blaze is the latest product under development from MadCap Software.
Scheduled for release early 2007, Blaze will be the ideal solution for
easily producing very long documents for print-such as books, manuals
and illustrated guides-using the latest technological advances
available. For years, authors have had to choose between ease of use
(e.g., Microsoft(r) Word(tm)) or the power to handle very large
documents
(e.g., Adobe(r) FrameMaker(r)). Now, with MadCap Blaze, authors have a
complete package: ease of use, power to create long documents,
flexibility, and an eye toward the future."
Cheers,
Art
On 8/17/06, AJ Coots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Again...it's not Blaze it's Flare that is the contender with
Framemaker.
>
<snp>
--
Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
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