Hedley: You are a hoot!!!! :) And, your points are well taken. Content management tool vendros are designing solutions that address your concerns about plug-ins and third-party tools. While Adobe may be slow to adopt the functionality plug-ins provide, CM vendors are not. In fact, several vendors, including SiberLogic, are marketing their products to FrameMaker users by making the case that pug-ins and third party applications go away when you marry FrameMaker and a content management system.
Another reason to move away from the old paradigm and toward content management. You can learn more about SiberLogic's SiberSafe (and the lack of plug-ins) from Rob Hanna's "Ask the Expert" article on FrameMaker and SiberSafe located here: http://www.siberlogic.com/framemaker/. ================================== The Content Wrangler Scott Abel, Content Management Strategist 3421 Crystal Lakes Ct., Sarasota FL 34235 abelsp at netdirect.net 941-359-3416 www.thecontentwrangler.com ======================== DITA 2006, March 23-25, 2006 - Raleigh, NC http://www.travelthepath.com/dita2006.html On Dec 5, 2005, at 11:00 PM, hedley.finger at myob.com wrote: > As someone whose job it is to support FrameMaker in a small team of ten > writers, installing and updating a reasonable set of productivity > enhancing plug-ins is a real pain. I would rather be handcuffed and > hog-tied, then made to wriggle naked across red-hot broken glass than > set > up a new writer with FM and a standard operating environment of > plug-ins > and their configuration files.
