On 4/26/10 7:07 AM, Chris Despopoulos wrote:
And with desktop software. The next wave (you heard it here) is servers and
services. Currently, the software innovation I'm aware of is in managing networks,
whether managing an array of devices and applications, streams of financial data,
or encoding/decoding& QOS for multimedia. Even if you just run it on a local
host as various servers and/or virtual machines, your software will soon all be
services swapping information via XML an/or other transports. FrameMaker per se
has a limited shelf life in this scenario. Instead, technical documentation will
be written in pieces scatterd across the cloudscape, and glommed into a coherent
thought at the last possible moment. The race will be to the last possible moment.
Ultimately, that will be as the reader asks about his current concern with his
current (and fluid) configuration.
Are you surprised that companies are putting 20-year old software out to
pasture? FrameMaker still works, so go ahead and use it. But think about
this... What was the latest innovation they gave us? A new GUI. Big whoop.
Why don't they implement a WIKI-to-Book round trip application? Why doesn't
Adobe implement a document server that steps ahead of Eclipse Help, that you
can install on a local host, a LAN, a WAN, an appliance machine, or to federate
a cloud of appliance docs? I can't answer that. But that's where this is
headed. Changing FrameMaker from a 10-speed to a 13-speed doesn't cut it.
Neither does an amplified choice of colors.
Yeah, well, I suppose someone will have to try doing it that way. Good
luck to you if you are the one. I don't suppose that writing that way
will be easy, or even doable with a coherent result within the,
probably, agile development cycle. So deadlines and quality will
definitely have a problem.
Scott
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