The New Zealand Tech Comms Association does an annual salary and tools survey. It's a self-selected sample so it's probably biased towards experienced career writers, but in 2011, about 15% of respondents used Framemaker, from about 7% of companies.
Flare had a few fewer users, so it's not taking over here. Other than Word, Author-It was the most popular tool. It's a local product so has a strong following here. Frame may be coughing a bit but it doesn't seem to be dead! Don't know about Frame 11 being a keeper. We're still using Frame 10 for production, but I've just finished a good solid bash at using TCS4 to convert a 3000 page book to HTML. Frame 11 didn't crash consistently like Frame 10 but it still crashed a few times. Cheers Rebecca >>> Keith Soltys <keith.soltys at tmx.com> 21/12/12 08:33 >>> The number of FrameMaker users was discussed on the FrameMaker History page some time ago: http://daube.ch/docu/fmhist00.html It seems that somewhere upwards of 500,000 would be a reasonable guess. Regards Keith > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 4:14 AM > To: Rob Shell; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Is FrameMaker 11 going down or is it a keeper? > > As a user of FrameMaker to produce several dozen published textbooks, I might > perhaps be qualified to comment. > > Although I have bought a FrameMaker 10 license to keep on the upgrade path, I > am still using FrameMaker 7 on Mac simply because it does everything I need it > to, predictably and well, including structured. This situation will pertain until I > can no longer support FrameMaker 7 Mac. > > I suspect I am not alone in this. > > As for numbers of seats, I was told anecdotally a number of years back by an > Adobe employee that it was the volume license users such as Boeing that kept > the product going. > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as keith.soltys at tmx.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/keith.soltys%40tmx.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY This e-mail, including all materials contained in or attached to this e-mail, contains proprietary and confidential information solely for the internal use of the intended recipient. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or otherwise and ensure that it is permanently deleted from your systems, and do not print, copy, distribute or read its contents. AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALIT? Le pr?sent courriel, y compris tous les documents qu'il contient ou qui y sont joints, renferme des renseignements exclusifs et confidentiels destin?s uniquement ? l'usage interne du destinataire pr?vu. Si vous avez re?u le pr?sent courriel par erreur, veuillez nous aviser imm?diatement, notamment par retour de courriel, et vous assurer qu'il est supprim? de fa?on permanente de vos syst?mes; veuillez ?galement vous abstenir d'imprimer, de copier, de distribuer ou de lire son contenu. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as rebecca.officer at alliedtelesis.co.nz. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rebecca.officer%40alliedtelesis.co.nz Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ##################################################################################### Scanned by MailMarshal - M86 Security's comprehensive email content security solution. ##################################################################################### NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20121222/b5d224e9/attachment.html>
